{"id":46433,"date":"2025-09-27T13:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/46433\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T13:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:12:12","slug":"wellingtons-mount-victoria-tunnel-opens-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/46433\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington&#8217;s Mount Victoria Tunnel opens after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4N9YYMG_image_crop_82440\" width=\"1050\" height=\"695\" alt=\"WELLINGTON - MARCH 01:Mount Victoria Tunnel on March 01 2013 in Wellington, New Zealand. round 45,000 vehicles pass through the Mount Victoria each day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nWellington&#8217;s Mount Victoria Tunnel.<br \/>\nPhoto: 123RF\n<\/p>\n<p>The Mount Victoria Tunnel in Wellington was closed for a while on Saturday morning due to a crash.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand Transport Agency \/ Waka Kotahi (NZTA) said the tunnel on State Highway 1 was closed in both directions.It has since reopened.<\/p>\n<p>The three-vehicle crash was reported to emergency services about 8:45am, police said. There were no reported injuries.<\/p>\n<p>NZTA advised drivers to consider alternative routes.<\/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 daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wellington&#8217;s Mount Victoria Tunnel. Photo: 123RF The Mount Victoria Tunnel in Wellington was closed for a while on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-46433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46433","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=46433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}