{"id":526435,"date":"2026-07-15T00:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/526435\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T00:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:26:09","slug":"black-ice-and-flooding-warnings-after-otago-bus-crash-injures-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/526435\/","title":{"rendered":"Black ice and flooding warnings after Otago bus crash injures 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hato Hone St John responded with an ambulance and a helicopter. <\/p>\n

They referred all further inquiries to police.<\/p>\n

It comes after road users in Queenstown were warned to take extra care this morning as black ice and surface flooding create hazards across the region.<\/p>\n

Queenstown Lakes District Council said that although there were warmer temperatures<\/a> yesterday, snowmelt had created a fresh set of risks for road users today.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can put the raincoats away for now, but snowmelt from yesterday\u2019s warmer weather is causing surface flooding across parts of the SH85 and black ice remains a hazard across several parts of the region.\u201d <\/p>\n

It said the surface flooding on SH85 was centred around Hills Creek, Naseby Bypass Rd and towards Kyeburn.<\/p>\n

There is also black ice around Arrowtown, Arthurs Point and along Malaghans Rd, Arrowtown-Lake Hayes Rd, Dalefield Rd, Littles Rd, Domain Rd and Hunter Rd.<\/p>\n

Black ice had also been reported in parts of Shotover Country and Lake Hayes Estate, with the council noting there was possible black ice between Cardrona and the Crown Range Summit.<\/p>\n

Icy conditions were also possible between W\u0101naka and Cardrona.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith warmer temperatures expected today, further snowmelt is likely, so there could be more surface flooding,\u201d thr council said.<\/p>\n

\u201cA reminder: if a patch of road looks wet and shiny, treat it as black ice.<\/p>\n

\u201cSlow down, avoid sudden braking and, as always, drive to the conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Flights delayed, cancelled after fog blankets Auckland<\/p>\n

At the opposite end of the country, thick fog descended on Auckland this morning, delaying and cancelling regional flights and blanketing motorways.<\/p>\n

Around 6.50am, Auckland Airport said about 12 domestic regional flights had been delayed and seven had been cancelled due to the fog.<\/p>\n

International flights and those to Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin and Queenstown were not affected, the airport said.<\/p>\n

As of 8am, Air New Zealand\u2019s website<\/a> showed early flights to and from Whang\u0101rei, Kerikeri, Tauranga, Napier, Palmerston North, Gisborne, Nelson, New Plymouth and Blenheim had been delayed, some by as much as three hours.<\/p>\n

Cancellations were also affecting some Tauranga, Rotorua, Palmerston North, New Plymouth and Napier\/Hastings and Blenheim flights.<\/p>\n

Travellers are advised to check with their airline and the airport\u2019s website for the latest flight updates.<\/p>\n

At 6.30am, visibility at the airport was around 400m, MetService meteorologist John Law said.<\/p>\n

The fog wasn\u2019t restricted to Auckland \u2013 many parts of the North Island were also having a \u201cmisty, murky start\u201d to the day, with moist air, cold temperatures and only light winds creating the perfect conditions for a foggy start, Law said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we head through the daytime, the temperatures will rise, the winds will pick up, and it will start to mix, and we\u2019ll start to see that fog lift up into low cloud.\u201d<\/p>\n

The latest forecast showed the fog beginning to break up and clear from 8am to 9am, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hato Hone St John responded with an ambulance and a helicopter. They referred all further inquiries to police.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,534,95,1558,7022,30482,28649,3549,19876,2027,10933,29510,1304,111,43,139,69,9629,4056,381,23419,1961,33210],"class_list":["post-526435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-amid","tag-and","tag-been","tag-black","tag-bus","tag-collided","tag-crash","tag-flooding","tag-ice","tag-injured","tag-injures","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-otago","tag-person","tag-region","tag-seriously","tag-this","tag-warnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526435","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=526435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}