{"id":537128,"date":"2026-07-21T16:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/537128\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T16:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:14:16","slug":"sunlive-tauranga-crash-causes-heavy-traffic-delays-on-sh2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/537128\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Tauranga crash causes heavy traffic delays on SH2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A three-vehicle crash has caused delays on State Highway 2 in central Tauranga between Takitimu Drive and Tauranga Harbour Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said the crash was reported about 3.40pm on Te Awanui Drive.<\/p>\n<p>She said there were no injuries.<\/p>\n<p>However, the inside lane of State Highway 2 was \u201dbriefly blocked&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Google Maps shows congestion on connected routes including Dive Crescent and Cameron Rd.<\/p>\n<p>Takitimu Drive was backed up until Elizabeth St.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A three-vehicle crash has caused delays on State Highway 2 in central Tauranga between Takitimu Drive and Tauranga&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-537128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537128","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=537128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}