{"id":572513,"date":"2026-08-18T08:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/572513\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T08:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T08:12:13","slug":"napier-highway-closed-after-serious-crash-near-awatoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/572513\/","title":{"rendered":"Napier highway closed after serious crash near Awatoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hawkes Bay Today<\/p>\n<p>18 Aug, 2026 05:15 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\">Initial indications are that there are serious injuries following the accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">State Highway 51 near Napier\u2019s Awatoto suburb is closed following a serious crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The two-vehicle crash, involving a car and a motorbike just south of Waitangi Road, was reported just after 4.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Initial indications are that there are serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The New Zealand Transport Agency said SH51 was closed between<br \/>\n         Waitangi Rd and Farndon Rd.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Diversions are in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hawkes Bay Today 18 Aug, 2026 05:15 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,121081,5201,3549,5504,26755,3607,35479,3180,111,43,139,69,1238,13672,17294],"class_list":["post-572513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-awatoto","tag-closed","tag-crash","tag-following","tag-highway","tag-napier","tag-napiers","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-serious","tag-state","tag-suburb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572513","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=572513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}