{"id":518861,"date":"2026-07-10T06:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T06:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/518861\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T06:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T06:40:11","slug":"motorcyclist-critically-injured-in-crash-north-of-dunedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/518861\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist critically injured in crash north of Dunedin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/leith_valley_100726.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Traffic has been diverted from State Highway One to the narrow, gravel Leith Valley Rd following...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Traffic has been diverted from State Highway One to the narrow, gravel Leith Valley Rd following the crash. Photo: Gerard O&#8217;Brien<\/p>\n<p>One person has been critically injured in a motorcycle crash that has closed State Highway One just north of Dunedin.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesman said the crash occurred at about 3.30pm between Pine Hill Rd and Leith Valley Rd.<\/p>\n<p>A Hato Hone St John spokeswoman said one person had been taken to Dunedin Hospital in a critical condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crash has closed SH1 to all traffic north of Dunedin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are advised to avoid the area if possible and expect delays.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/regions\/south-otago\/five-injured-crash-sh8-near-milton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">It is the second serious crash in Otago this afternoon, after five people were injured in a two-vehicle accident near Milton earlier in the day.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traffic has been diverted from State Highway One to the narrow, gravel Leith Valley Rd following the crash.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-518861","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\/518861","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=518861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}