{"id":525800,"date":"2026-07-14T15:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/525800\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T15:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:22:20","slug":"transmission-gully-northbound-lanes-closed-due-to-flaming-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/525800\/","title":{"rendered":"Transmission Gully northbound lanes closed due to flaming car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6NEDB7IXAJGMBARWIYQDXBMUFE.png\" alt=\"Janhavi Gosavi\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/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=\"\">The northbound lanes of Transmission Gully have been closed near the Wainui Saddle after a car went up in flames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were notified after 8.20am there was a car fire on the State Highway 1 route just before Paek\u0101k\u0101riki.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"A car fire closes down northbound lanes on Transmission Gully near Paekakariki. Photo \/ Traffic Fox.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>A car fire closes down northbound lanes on Transmission Gully near Paekakariki. Photo \/ Traffic Fox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police confirmed no injuries were reported. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Motorists have been<br \/>\n         told to avoid the area and expect delays.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1558,3944,5201,5910,34981,260153,30185,305,3950,3180,111,43,139,29817,69,110762,61,30184,136796,2201],"class_list":["post-525800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-been","tag-car","tag-closed","tag-due","tag-flames","tag-flaming","tag-gully","tag-have","tag-lanes","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-northbound","tag-nz","tag-saddle","tag-to","tag-transmission","tag-wainui","tag-went"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525800","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=525800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}