{"id":536561,"date":"2026-07-21T08:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/536561\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T08:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:23:12","slug":"crash-closes-great-north-rd-near-st-lukes-in-auckland-motorists-warned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/536561\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash closes Great North Rd near St Lukes in Auckland, motorists warned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/WJBBNFHEO5GXLN5HCNYJJHKXTM.jpg\" alt=\"Herald Reporters\" 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 data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A section of Great North Rd is closed following a two-vehicle crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A two-vehicle crash has closed a key central Auckland road this evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police went to the crash at the Great North Rd intersection with St Lukes Rd at Western Springs just after 6pm today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Hato Hone St John is at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Motorists were urged to avoid the<br \/>\n         area and to 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":536562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,1853,5201,18509,3549,19555,16773,78,34610,51720,3180,111,43,139,529,69,2642,1314,11420,1961,44097,8222],"class_list":["post-536561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-central","tag-closed","tag-closes","tag-crash","tag-evening","tag-great","tag-in","tag-lukes","tag-motorists","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-rd","tag-road","tag-st","tag-this","tag-twovehicle","tag-warned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536561","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=536561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}