{"id":380486,"date":"2026-04-15T10:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/380486\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:18:09","slug":"one-lane-of-state-highway-6-north-of-nelson-reopens-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/380486\/","title":{"rendered":"One lane of State Highway 6 north of Nelson reopens after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4JQ4MFV_Screenshot_2026_04_15_152602_png.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"607\" alt=\"State Highway 6 is closed in both directions near the Todd Bush Road intersection in the Nelson-Tasman region.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nEarlier State Highway 6 was closed in both directions near the Todd Bush Road intersection in the Nelson-Tasman region, but one lane has now reopened.<br \/>\nPhoto: NZTA\n<\/p>\n<p>One lane of State Highway 6 north of Nelson has reopened after a crash closed the main route between Nelson and Blenheim or Picton on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Transport Agency says traffic is being managed using stop\/go traffic lights and there is a temporary speed restriction of 30km\/h in place.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers are asked to travel with care through the area until the highway is fully reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were notified of a serious crash about 2.40pm on Wednesday near the intersection of Todd Bush Road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier State Highway 6 was closed in both directions near the Todd Bush Road intersection in the Nelson-Tasman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-380486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380486","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=380486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}