{"id":382265,"date":"2026-04-16T09:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/382265\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T09:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T09:52:13","slug":"serious-crash-closes-state-highway-14-in-northland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/382265\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious crash closes State Highway 14 in Northland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/9efb65fe-03d6-4e60-850d-8911700e8a2f.png\" alt=\"Brodie Stone\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/northern-advocate\/author\/brodie-stone\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Brodie Stone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Northern Advocate\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>16 Apr, 2026 04:30 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Police are attending a crash on SH14 in Maunu this afternoon, and \u201csignificant delays\u201d for motorists are expected after an earlier crash on the same stretch of road. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A section of State Highway 14 has been closed and major delays are expected after two crashes on the same stretch of road in Northland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were first called to a single-vehicle crash in Tangiteroria about 2.40pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said initial indications suggest serious injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         A second crash<br \/>\n         then happened on State Highway 14 in Maunu, involving two vehicles and minor injuries.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">The two crashes were expected to cause \u201csignificant delays\u201d, a police spokesperson said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brodie Stone Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Northern Advocate\u00b7 16 Apr, 2026 04:30 AMQuick Read \u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22256,74,1558,5201,18509,3549,29422,16492,5346,26755,78,661,111,43,139,1067,69,1314,4514,14777,1238,13672,11584],"class_list":{"0":"post-382265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-22256","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-been","11":"tag-closed","12":"tag-closes","13":"tag-crash","14":"tag-crashes","15":"tag-delays","16":"tag-expected","17":"tag-highway","18":"tag-in","19":"tag-major","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-northland","24":"tag-nz","25":"tag-road","26":"tag-same","27":"tag-section","28":"tag-serious","29":"tag-state","30":"tag-stretch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382265","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=382265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}