{"id":421314,"date":"2026-05-10T20:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/421314\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T20:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:35:08","slug":"auckland-southern-motorway-crash-truck-and-car-collide-extensive-delays-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/421314\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland Southern Motorway crash: Truck and car collide, \u2018extensive delays\u2019 expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">All lanes have since reopened. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Police earlier advised motorists to expect \u201cextensive delays\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">At 7.45am it was taking 1 hour and 14 minutes to travel from Bombay to Auckland city on the Southern Motorway.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Delays are expected following a crash on Auckland's Southern motorway this morning. Photo \/ Google Maps\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Delays are expected following a crash on Auckland&#8217;s Southern motorway this morning. Photo \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) said lanes  two to four are blocked following the accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPass with caution and expect delays in the area. Please follow the directions of emergency services.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All lanes have since reopened. Police earlier advised motorists to expect \u201cextensive delays\u201d. At 7.45am it was taking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,95,51,3952,28648,3944,28647,3549,16492,2837,5346,8999,33262,3950,1304,3945,111,43,139,69,21532,13109,171,23857,3608],"class_list":["post-421314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-and","tag-auckland","tag-aucklands","tag-blocked","tag-car","tag-collide","tag-crash","tag-delays","tag-during","tag-expected","tag-extensive","tag-hour","tag-lanes","tag-morning","tag-motorway","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rush","tag-several","tag-southern","tag-truck","tag-were"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421314","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=421314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}