{"id":481760,"date":"2026-06-17T10:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/481760\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T10:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:28:11","slug":"motorway-crash-near-dunedin-causes-delays-as-crews-free-injured-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/481760\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorway crash near Dunedin causes delays as crews free injured driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CG3CZG2EOFGNDAUQCEUSHE45CI.png\" alt=\"Jazlyn Whales\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/jazlyn-whales\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Jazlyn Whales<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>17 Jun, 2026 03:45 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fire and emergency crews are working to remove an injured person from a car that collided with a barrier near Dunedin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were called to the Dunedin Southern Motorway, between the Westland St on-ramp and Old Brighton Rd off-ramp, shortly before 3pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         A Fire and Emergency shift manager<br \/>\n         confirmed crews from Mosgiel, Roslyn, and Lookout Point were working to remove a person from the vehicle.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">The person is not trapped, but crews are working to free them due to injuries, they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jazlyn Whales Journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7 17 Jun, 2026 03:45 AMQuick Read \u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[806,20497,23604,28649,3549,23364,16492,19552,6788,15974,2079,4975,71,42,10933,3945,3180,43,4056,28875,1361,40,38,41,39,102,19135],"class_list":["post-481760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-as","tag-barrier","tag-causes","tag-collided","tag-crash","tag-crews","tag-delays","tag-driver","tag-dunedin","tag-emergency","tag-fire","tag-free","tag-from","tag-headlines","tag-injured","tag-motorway","tag-near","tag-news","tag-person","tag-remove","tag-that","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-with","tag-working"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481760","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=481760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}