{"id":432620,"date":"2026-05-18T00:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T00:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/432620\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T00:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T00:11:10","slug":"two-hong-kong-tourists-killed-in-sh1-crash-near-rakaia-in-canterbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/432620\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Hong Kong tourists killed in SH1 crash near Rakaia in Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"
It reported the Chinese consulate general in Christchurch had \u201cexpressed deep sorrow over the deaths\u201d and would provide assistance to the injured and their families. <\/p>\n
The crash caused significant traffic delays south of Christchurch while the road was closed, and a detour involving an extra 100km of travel was put in place.<\/p>\n
Motorists were advised to avoid the area as congestion was building up on SH77, with traffic cameras capturing queues heading southwards on to the Rakaia River Bridge.<\/p>\n
Main South Rd reopened at 6.55pm after being closed for about five hours as police investigated the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n
Traffic backed up at Rakaia after a serious crash. Photo \/ NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi<\/p>\n
\u201cWith police investigations at the site complete, and vehicles involved in the crash having been towed, the section of SH1\/Main South Rd between North Rakaia Rd and Railway Terrace East is now open and clear,\u201d NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) said at the time.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Hato Hone St John said three people had been injured, with one in critical condition.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur ambulance staff treated three patients and transported two of them to Christchurch Public Hospital by helicopter, one in a critical condition and one in a serious condition,\u201d St John said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe third patient was transported by road ambulance to Christchurch Public Hospital in a moderate condition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It reported the Chinese consulate general in Christchurch had \u201cexpressed deep sorrow over the deaths\u201d and would provide…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,8126,4487,3549,6179,4999,20588,78,3375,45499,3180,111,43,139,69,219614,37229,1240,46403,9182,1237],"class_list":["post-432620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-canterbury","tag-christchurch","tag-crash","tag-died","tag-friday","tag-hong","tag-in","tag-killed","tag-kong","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rakaia","tag-sh1","tag-south","tag-threevehicle","tag-tourists","tag-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432620","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=432620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}