{"id":534879,"date":"2026-07-20T08:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T08:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/534879\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T08:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T08:56:08","slug":"one-dead-power-outage-after-crash-closes-sh1-north-of-levin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/534879\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead, power outage after crash closes SH1 north of Levin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person has died and another is critically injured after a car crashed into a power pole north of Levin this afternoon, closing a section of State Highway 1 and leaving almost 100 properties without power.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the single-vehicle crash on State Highway 1 between Kawiu Rd and The Avenue just before 1pm on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sadly, one person died at the scene,&#8221; a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>St John said a helicopter, two ambulances and two rapid response vehicles responded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One patient has been airlifted to Wellington Hospital in a critical condition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NZTA said the highway was closed between Koputaroa and Avenue North roads.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Road users to detour via Koputaroa Rd. Note, the detour is not suitable for heavy vehicles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lines company Electra said 99 customers remained without electricity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our crew are on site to evaluate the damage and try restore power as quickly and safely as it is safe for them to do so.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has died and another is critically injured after a car crashed into a power pole north&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31044,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-534879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-manawatu-wanganui","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534879","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=534879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}