{"id":512980,"date":"2026-07-06T21:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/512980\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T21:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:04:18","slug":"crash-slows-traffic-on-dunedin-motorway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/512980\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash slows traffic on Dunedin motorway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crash on Dunedin&#8217;s southern motorway caused traffic delays for a time this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police advised they were responding to the two-vehicle crash, in the northbound lanes\u00a0near the Main South Road overpass,\u00a0about 7.50am.<\/p>\n<p>They said no injuries had been reported but traffic was down to one lane for a time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Motorists heading into the city are urged to use alternative routes due to heavy traffic backlog at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an update about 8.15am NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi advised the road was clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crash on Dunedin&#8217;s southern motorway caused traffic delays for a time this morning. Police advised they were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-512980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512980","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=512980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}