{"id":495436,"date":"2026-06-25T20:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/495436\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T20:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:49:09","slug":"state-highway-39-closed-after-serious-crash-near-whatawhata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/495436\/","title":{"rendered":"State Highway 39 closed after serious crash near Whatawhata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waikato Herald<\/p>\n<p>25 Jun, 2026 07:22 PMQuick Read<\/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=\"\">A Waikato state highway is closed after a pedestrian was hit by a vehicle this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The crash on State Highway 39\/Kakaramea Rd, south of Whatawhata, was reported around 6.40am, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cInitial indications are that there are serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cMotorists are advised to avoid the area and expect delays.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waikato Herald 25 Jun, 2026 07:22 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158361,74,5201,3549,26755,1304,3180,111,43,139,69,33551,1238,13672,1961,6845,1524,79137],"class_list":["post-495436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-158361","tag-after","tag-closed","tag-crash","tag-highway","tag-morning","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pedestrian","tag-serious","tag-state","tag-this","tag-vehicle","tag-waikato","tag-whatawhata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495436","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=495436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}