{"id":562472,"date":"2026-08-08T04:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562472\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:34:10","slug":"west-coast-sh6-closed-after-crash-leaves-one-in-critical-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/562472\/","title":{"rendered":"West Coast SH6 closed after crash leaves one in critical condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>8 Aug, 2026 01:19 AMQuick Read<\/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\">Emergency services are responding to a serious crash on State Highway 6 in Paroa on the West Coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A person is critically injured and part of State Highway 6 is closed after a serious crash near Greymouth on the West Coast. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The two-vehicle crash happened about 11.20am near the intersection of Main South Rd and Clough Rd in Paroa. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Emergency services and the Serious Crash Unit<br \/>\n         were called to the scene.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Diversions are in place and motorists are being advised to avoid the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 8 Aug, 2026 01:19 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,5201,11586,1239,3549,11728,12939,11691,26755,78,10933,7973,3180,111,43,139,69,5270,5202,4056,1238,139175,13672,3807],"class_list":["post-562472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-closed","tag-coast","tag-condition","tag-crash","tag-critical","tag-critically","tag-greymouth","tag-highway","tag-in","tag-injured","tag-leaves","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-part","tag-person","tag-serious","tag-sh6","tag-state","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562472","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=562472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}