{"id":419669,"date":"2026-05-09T15:43:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T15:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/419669\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T15:43:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T15:43:22","slug":"sh2-blocked-southbound-between-petone-and-wellington-after-pedestrian-hit-by-car-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/419669\/","title":{"rendered":"SH2 blocked southbound between Petone and Wellington after pedestrian hit by car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4K47N62_0Z9A8963_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"A police car parked across the road at the scene of a triple fatality in Waiuku, in July 2025.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPolice said they were alerted to the incident at 6.25pm.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ\/ Marika Khabazi\n<\/p>\n<p>The southbound lanes of State Highway 2 along the Hutt Road between Petone and Ngauranga have been blocked after a pedestrian was struck by a car.<\/p>\n<p>SH2 was closed on Friday night between Dowse interchange and Hutt off-ramp, with a detour via State Highways 58 and 1.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were alerted to the incident at 6.25pm.<\/p>\n<p>They are advising people to delay their journey or use State Highways 58 and 1.<\/p>\n<p>The Serious Crash Unit is attending the scene and could take several hours to complete their investigation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4JOXQNO_Traffic_on_Friday_png.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"624\" alt=\"Google Maps\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nTraffic build-up was already significant and police were advising motorists there would be &#8220;extensive delays&#8221;.<br \/>\nPhoto: Google Maps\n<\/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":"Police said they were alerted to the incident at 6.25pm. Photo: RNZ\/ Marika Khabazi The southbound lanes of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8333,"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-419669","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\/419669","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=419669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}