{"id":376827,"date":"2026-04-13T04:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/376827\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T04:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T04:28:10","slug":"one-person-dead-after-crash-near-bulls-closes-state-highway-1-and-sh3-for-several-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/376827\/","title":{"rendered":"One person dead after crash near Bulls closes State Highway 1 and SH3 for several hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Parts of two state highways have been closed after a fatal road crash on the Rangit\u012bkei River Bridge, near Bulls.<\/p>\n

One person has died after a motorcycle and truck collided on the Rangit\u012bkei River Bridge.<\/p>\n

State Highway 1 and SH3 near the bridge are closed.<\/p>\n

Emergency services responded to the two-vehicle crash, near the Tangimoana Rd intersection between Bulls and Sanson, about 10.55am.<\/p>\n

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Hato Hone St John responded with one ambulance and two Fire and Emergency New Zealand crews from Bulls attended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,95,1565,58032,18509,28649,3549,690,6179,2082,42,26755,11551,28369,3180,43,5270,4056,2885,6739,13109,171602,13672,40,38,41,39,23857],"class_list":["post-376827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-and","tag-bridge","tag-bulls","tag-closes","tag-collided","tag-crash","tag-dead","tag-died","tag-for","tag-headlines","tag-highway","tag-hours","tag-motorcycle","tag-near","tag-news","tag-one","tag-person","tag-rangitkei","tag-river","tag-several","tag-sh3","tag-state","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}