{"id":557462,"date":"2026-08-03T10:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/557462\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T10:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:37:14","slug":"sh1-closed-near-kauri-in-northland-after-serious-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/557462\/","title":{"rendered":"SH1 closed near Kauri in Northland after serious crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/LBVXE765QRCHXCI5VJ5FKIGRZY.png\" alt=\"Zeb Tupa'i\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/zeb-tupai\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Zeb Tupa&#8217;i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multimedia Journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>3 Aug, 2026 09:50 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A serious crash has closed SH1 in both directions near Kauri. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A serious crash has closed State Highway 1 near Kauri in Northland this evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were called to the crash in the small settlement 10km north of Whang\u0101rei about 8.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Hato Hone St John said three people were in a moderate condition and ambulance crews remain at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">It referred further inquiries to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) said SH1 was closed in both directions following the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zeb Tupa&#8217;i Multimedia Journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7 3 Aug, 2026 09:50 AMQuick Read \u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,5201,3549,19555,26755,78,42921,3180,111,43,139,1067,69,1238,37229,13672,1961],"class_list":["post-557462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-closed","tag-crash","tag-evening","tag-highway","tag-in","tag-kauri","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-northland","tag-nz","tag-serious","tag-sh1","tag-state","tag-this"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557462","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=557462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}