{"id":500075,"date":"2026-06-28T20:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T20:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/500075\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T20:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T20:54:08","slug":"one-dead-state-highway-3-closed-near-kai-iwi-north-of-whanganui-after-serious-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/500075\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead, State Highway 3 closed near Kai Iwi, north of Whanganui after serious crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOne person died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe road is expected to remain closed for some time, and diversions are in place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Motorists were advised to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency was called at 1.51am and sent two appliances from Whanganui, central shift manager Murray Dunbar said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Crews had helped with \u201cextrication\u201d and left the scene with police and ambulance officers, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John attended the crash around 1.50am, sending two transporting ambulances and taking one patient to Whanganui Base Hospital in a moderate condition, a spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">The Herald has requested further comment from police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">The NZ Transport Agency said SH3 was closed between Kai Iwi Valley Rd and Watt Livingstone Rd, with a detour in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Road users were advised to delay their journeys or use an alternate route, the agency\u2019s website said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOne person died at the scene. \u201cThe road is expected to remain closed for some time, and diversions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,5201,3549,690,7557,26755,50521,141,3180,111,43,139,529,69,1118,5270,4056,14777,1238,544,13672,1361,2044,1883,1533],"class_list":["post-500075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-closed","tag-crash","tag-dead","tag-district","tag-highway","tag-iwi","tag-kai","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-one","tag-person","tag-section","tag-serious","tag-some","tag-state","tag-that","tag-time","tag-whanganui","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500075","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=500075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}