{"id":573417,"date":"2026-08-19T04:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/573417\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T04:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:38:08","slug":"waioweka-gorge-state-highway-2-reopens-to-heavy-vehicles-after-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/573417\/","title":{"rendered":"Waioweka Gorge: State Highway 2 reopens to heavy vehicles after ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Meanwhile, several people were injured, including two seriously, in a crash near Rotorua overnight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Emergency services were called to State Highway 30 at Rotoma, near Matahi Rd, about midnight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">A Hato Hone St John spokesman said six people were assessed. Two were taken to Rotorua Hospital in a serious condition and two were taken to Whakat\u0101ne Hospital in a moderate condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">A Fire and Emergency NZ spokesman said three trucks were sent to the single-car crash and crews helped police and ambulance services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">A police spokesperson said the crash is being investigated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, several people were injured, including two seriously, in a crash near Rotorua overnight. Emergency services were called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,8278,5504,121901,6559,26755,2027,1304,111,43,139,69,20593,1854,13672,1961,210,61,6861,142210],"class_list":["post-573417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-conditions","tag-following","tag-gorge","tag-heavy","tag-highway","tag-ice","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-reopened","tag-reopens","tag-state","tag-this","tag-through","tag-to","tag-vehicles","tag-waioweka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573417","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=573417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}