{"id":486002,"date":"2026-06-19T21:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/486002\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T21:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T21:01:09","slug":"person-killed-in-crash-that-left-drivers-stuck-for-hours-north-of-wellington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/486002\/","title":{"rendered":"Person killed in crash that left drivers stuck for hours north of Wellington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A person has died following a crash on State Highway 1 north of Wellington that left drivers stuck on the road for hours. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Emergency services were called to the crash between the Tawa-Grenada North on-ramp and the Churton Park-Glenside off-ramp at around 4.40pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">This morning, police confirmed a person was killed in the crash, while another was critically injured. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The southbound lane was closed between the two off-ramps for hours while the serious crash unit investigated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Traffic ground to a standstill, and according to RNZ, some drivers sat waiting for more than four hours. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">It was reported that some people had abandoned their cars while waiting for the road to reopen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The section of motorway was opened shortly before 11pm. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person has died following a crash on State Highway 1 north of Wellington that left drivers stuck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,42,43,40,38,41,39,52],"class_list":["post-486002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486002","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=486002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}