{"id":391126,"date":"2026-04-21T22:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/391126\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T22:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:28:09","slug":"serious-crash-closes-southland-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/391126\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious crash closes Southland highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A serious two-vehicle crash has closed the state highway north of Invercargill this morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Initial indications suggest there are serious injuries.\u00a0The road is closed while emergency services are in attendance,&#8221; police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the crash on State Highway 1 between Woodlands and Dacre at around 8.10am.<\/p>\n<p>State Highway 1, Edendale Woodlands Highway, is closed following a serious crash in Dacre this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The road was closed while emergency services are in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>A detour is available: northbound traffic can turn left onto Grove Bush-Woodlands Road, right onto SH98\/Lorne-Dacre Road and then left back onto SH1\/Edendale-Woodlands Highway.<\/p>\n<p>The reverse applies for southbound traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A serious two-vehicle crash has closed the state highway north of Invercargill this morning. &#8220;Initial indications suggest there&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-391126","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\/391126","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=391126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}