{"id":396739,"date":"2026-04-25T08:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396739\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T08:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T08:21:09","slug":"sh-56-and-57-closed-near-shannon-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396739\/","title":{"rendered":"SH 56 and 57 closed near Shannon after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4K54V7B_Image_46_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"699\" alt=\"A serious crash in Kume\u016b, left four people with injuries including two in critical condition.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThe crash, south of Palmerston North, was thought to have resulted in serious injuries, police said (file photo).<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ\/ Calvin Samuel\n<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services are working at the scene of a serious two-vehicle crash on the intersection of two highways, south of Palmerston North, and drivers have been asked to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the intersection of State Highways 56 and SH57, near Shannon, about 3:10pm on Saturday, they said.<\/p>\n<p>The busy intersection sits on a railway level crossing.<\/p>\n<p>Initial indications were that there had been serious injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Both roads have been closed.<\/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":"The crash, south of Palmerston North, was thought to have resulted in serious injuries, police said (file photo).&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-396739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396739","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=396739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}