{"id":536778,"date":"2026-07-21T11:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T11:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/536778\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T11:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T11:26:13","slug":"serious-crash-closes-part-of-sh99-in-southland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/536778\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious crash closes part of SH99 in Southland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A serious crash has closed part of State Highway 99 near Wallacetown in Southland.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the two-vehicle collision on the Riverton-Wallacetown Highway, near Price Rd, about 5.20pm today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Initial indicators are that there are serious injuries,&#8221; a police spokeswoman said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The highway is closed from Cumnock St in Wallacetown to Taramoa Rd, the New Zealand Transport Agency\/Waka Kotahi advised.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Diversions are in place at Ryal Bush-Wallacetown Rd and Oporo Flat Rd.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Serious Crash Unit has been advised.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists were asked to avoid the area and expect delays.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; additional reporting Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A serious crash has closed part of State Highway 99 near Wallacetown in Southland.\u00a0 Emergency services were called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-536778","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\/536778","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=536778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}