Two people are injured and three cows have been put down after a stock truck rolled near Ashburton this evening.<\/p>\n
The crash happened on Beach Rd in Elgin,\u00a0between Milton Rd South and Cochrane Rd, about 6.40pm.<\/p>\n
One person sustained moderate injuries and the other had minor injuries.<\/p>\n
Up to 10 more cows were unaccounted for in the surrounding area, police said<\/p>\n
One lane of the road was blocked.<\/p>\n
A police spokesperson urged motorists to take extra care when travelling near the site.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re asking drivers to delay their journey or take an alternative route while we work to clear the scene,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith livestock still unaccounted for, there is a real hazard for anyone coming through the area, so please slow down and stay alert.\u201d<\/p>\n
Motorists were advised to avoid the area.<\/p>\n
\u00a0– Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people are injured and three cows have been put down after a stock truck rolled near Ashburton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-389227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389227","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=389227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}