Two people have died, and another has been seriously injured after three separate single-vehicle crashes in Auckland, South Canterbury and Dunedin overnight.<\/p>\n
Police said the first crash was reported just before 9pm on Saturday, near the East T\u0101maki off-ramp on Auckland’s Southern Motorway. <\/p>\n
The sole occupant of the vehicle died at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n
The Southern Motorway had been closed southbound but has since reopened. <\/p>\n
Police said inquiries into the circumstances were ongoing.<\/p>\n
Minutes later, just after 9pm, emergency services in South Canterbury were called to a crash on the Geraldine-Fairlie Highway at Pleasant Valley.<\/p>\n
The crash occurred at the intersection with Slacks Valley Rd.<\/p>\n
One of the two occupants died at the scene, police said, and the second was taken to hospital with moderate injuries. <\/p>\n
The serious crash unit attended, and inquiries were continuing.<\/p>\n
Dunedin road closed for hours<\/p>\n
The third crash, on Caversham Valley Rd at Calton Hill in Dunedin, was reported just after 1.10am, near Mornington Rd.<\/p>\n
One person sustained serious injuries.<\/p>\n
Police said the road had been closed northbound with detours in place, and was expected to remain closed for several hours this morning. <\/p>\n
Motorists were advised to avoid the area if possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have died, and another has been seriously injured after three separate single-vehicle crashes in Auckland, South…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,158,1080,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-544047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-dunedin-otago","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544047","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=544047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}