{"id":571912,"date":"2026-08-17T17:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/571912\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T17:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:48:12","slug":"state-highway-2-reopens-after-empty-truck-trailer-rolls-near-norsewood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/571912\/","title":{"rendered":"State Highway 2 reopens after empty truck-trailer rolls near Norsewood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">The police spokeswoman said the road was expected to be closed for some time as a heavy tow was needed to remove the truck-trailer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt was blocking the southbound lane. <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt could be blocked for a while, traffic management is in place.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">A Fire and Emergency NZ spokeswoman said firefighters from Norsewood, Ormondville, Waipukurau, and Dannevirke attended the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cGiven that it was a truck, we upgraded the response to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">The driver had got themselves out of the vehicle, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Firefighters helped with traffic control and clean-up, and had left by 1.45pm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">NZTA advised motorists to follow directions given by emergency services on-site, be prepared to detour and allow additional time for travel through the area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The police spokeswoman said the road was expected to be closed for some time as a heavy tow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,23778,26755,1044,3180,111,43,139,161039,69,20593,1854,25261,25259,13672,194509,3946,281880,8238],"class_list":["post-571912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-empty","tag-highway","tag-management","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-norsewood","tag-nz","tag-reopened","tag-reopens","tag-rolled","tag-rolls","tag-state","tag-stopgo","tag-traffic","tag-trucktrailer","tag-under"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571912","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=571912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}