{"id":546617,"date":"2026-07-27T18:35:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/546617\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T18:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:35:21","slug":"wellington-coastal-highway-closed-between-pukerua-bay-and-paekakariki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/546617\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington coastal highway closed between Pukerua Bay and Paek\u0101k\u0101riki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Part of a major coastal highway on the K\u0101piti Coast has closed after a serious crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">State Highway 59 was shut between Pukerua Bay and Paek\u0101k\u0101riki after a collision between a car and cyclist shortly before 6pm on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Police said the cyclist was seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">NZTA said drivers were advised to take State Highway 1 Transmission Gully between Porirua and the K\u0101piti Coast or to delay their journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Part of a major coastal highway on the K\u0101piti Coast has closed after a serious crash. State Highway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-546617","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\/546617","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=546617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}