{"id":545814,"date":"2026-07-27T07:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/545814\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T07:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T07:11:11","slug":"person-injured-in-dunedin-motorway-crash-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/545814\/","title":{"rendered":"Person injured in Dunedin motorway crash dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0person critically injured in a single vehicle crash in Dunedin has died.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to SH1\/Caversham Valley Road about 1.15am\u00a0on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>One person was transported to hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSadly, the person died in hospital last night,\u201d police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Two other people were injured in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The northbound lanes of the motorway were closed for several hours but reopened shortly before 9am.<\/p>\n<p>Police\u00a0have asked for any witnesses to come forward, including those with dashcam footage of the area prior to the crash.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0person critically injured in a single vehicle crash in Dunedin has died. Emergency services were called to SH1\/Caversham&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-545814","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\/545814","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=545814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}