{"id":433437,"date":"2026-05-18T13:52:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/433437\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:52:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:52:26","slug":"southland-highway-clear-after-tractor-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/433437\/","title":{"rendered":"Southland highway clear after tractor roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A highway in Southland has reopened after a tractor rolled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were called to the crash on Pioneer Highway (State Highway 1) in Mataura about 3.20pm today.<\/p>\n<p>The accident site was between the Glencoe Highway (SH96) and Craig Rd, just south of the town.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thankfully, there are no serious injuries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No other vehicles were involved.<\/p>\n<p>Contractors for the NZ Transport Agency\/Waka Kotahi travelled to the crash site to assist with clean-up and clearing the road.<\/p>\n<p>Although now fully clear, people were asked to travel with care on this route, a spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Allied Media\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A highway in Southland has reopened after a tractor rolled.\u00a0 Police said they were called to the crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-433437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/433437","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=433437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}