{"id":411970,"date":"2026-05-04T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/411970\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:00:07","slug":"one-person-in-serious-condition-after-sh2-crash-near-taradale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/411970\/","title":{"rendered":"One person in serious condition after SH2 crash near Taradale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawkes Bay Today<\/p>\n<p>4 May, 2026 09:47 PMQuick Read<\/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\">A two-vehicle crash has closed the northbound lanes of the Hawke&#8217;s Bay Expressway. They have since reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A motorist is in a serious condition after a two-vehicle crash closed the northbound lanes of a Napier highway today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were called to the accident on the Hawke\u2019s Bay Expressway\/State Highway 2, at Taradale about 8.10am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Hato Hone St John transported one person in a serious condition to<br \/>\n         Hawke\u2019s Bay Hospital while another person involved was in a minor condition and did not require transport.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">The lanes were reopened at 9.20am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Meanwhile, another two-vehicle crash closed one northbound lane of the Hawke\u2019s Bay Expressway at the Ngaruroro River Bridge about 9.10am. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawkes Bay Today 4 May, 2026 09:47 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,5201,1239,3549,26755,78,3950,59919,3607,3180,111,43,139,29817,69,5270,4056,1238,47621,85464,1865,44097],"class_list":["post-411970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-closed","tag-condition","tag-crash","tag-highway","tag-in","tag-lanes","tag-motorist","tag-napier","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-northbound","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-person","tag-serious","tag-sh2","tag-taradale","tag-today","tag-twovehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411970","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=411970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}