{"id":407704,"date":"2026-05-02T02:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/407704\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T02:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:27:12","slug":"highway-reopened-after-frozen-goods-truck-rollover-near-wanaka-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/407704\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway reopened after frozen goods truck rollover near W\u0101naka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A section of state highway near W\u0101naka has been reopened after a truck carrying chilled and frozen goods rolled overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to State Highway 8, between M\u0101ori Point Rd and Bells Ln, at around 1.45am following reports that a truck had rolled.  <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777688832_35_the-truck-was-carrying-chilled-and-frozen-goods-6HL7NZFBTNE7ZPJULDKSWBSY4M.jpg\" alt=\"A detour was in place while the trailer was emptied. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">A detour was in place while the trailer was emptied.  (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>Police said there were no injuries, but the road was blocked.  In an update at midday, NZ Transport Agency said the road was reopened. <\/p>\n<p>All of the goods in the truck needed to be unloaded before it could be righted and towed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A section of state highway near W\u0101naka has been reopened after a truck carrying chilled and frozen goods&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,1080,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-407704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-dunedin-otago","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\/407704","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=407704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}