Delays are expected on State Highway 2 north of Tauranga after a truck rolled off the road near Katikati.<\/p>\n
Emergency services responded to the incident, which was reported about 2.50pm near the Morton Rd roundabout.<\/p>\n
Fire and Emergency northern fire communications shift manager Josh Pennefather said a truck and trailer rolled off the road.<\/p>\n
The initial report said the driver was still inside, but the driver was out when crews from Katikati and Tauranga arrived.<\/p>\n
Pennefather said ambulances also responded, but were stood down because there were no injuries.<\/p>\n
A police spokeswoman said a truck had hit a power pole on SH2. \u201cIt appears there were only minor injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said the road was blocked while police worked to recover the truck.<\/p>\n
An NZ Transport Agency update about 5.20pm said the northbound lane at the Morton Rd roundabout was blocked.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly southbound traffic can pass. Expect the road northbound to be closed for at least the next 60 minutes as crew work to clear the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n
Motorists were advised to avoid the area and consider delaying their journeys if possible.<\/p>\n
Owner of Strictly Outdoors on Morton Rd, Blake O\u2019Loughlin, earlier said traffic was flowing.<\/p>\n
He said he thought traffic would become congested when the truck was shifted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delays are expected on State Highway 2 north of Tauranga after a truck rolled off the road near…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-540131","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\/540131","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=540131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}