{"id":547125,"date":"2026-07-28T01:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/547125\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T01:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:47:18","slug":"glenorchy-queenstown-road-reopens-after-bus-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/547125\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenorchy-Queenstown Road reopens after bus crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Glenorchy-Queenstown Road has reopened after a bus crash near an area known as the Narrows on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The single-vehicle crash occurred about 9am.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of the occupants of the bus appear to have minor injuries,\u201d police said in a statement shortly after the crash.<\/p>\n<p>They said the road would be closed for some time while the bus was removed.<\/p>\n<p>In an update about 1.20pm the Queenstown Lakes District Council advised the road had reopened<\/p>\n<p>The QLDC earlier advised that \u201cplenty of locations\u201d\u00a0had temperatures hovering around freezing point or below, and said crews would be monitoring conditions through the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Icy conditions have caused problems on roads around the resort several times this winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Glenorchy-Queenstown Road has reopened after a bus crash near an area known as the Narrows on Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-547125","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\/547125","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=547125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}