{"id":576605,"date":"2026-08-22T05:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T05:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576605\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T05:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T05:56:11","slug":"southern-highway-reopens-after-serious-crash-leaves-three-critical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576605\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern highway reopens after serious crash leaves three critical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" data-tb-thumbnail=\"true\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/780473868_1409463087913531_2998964122685509850_n-jfif.webp\" width=\"544\" height=\"538\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"narrow-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/><img alt=\"\" data-tb-thumbnail=\"true\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/780473868_1409463087913531_2998964122685509850_n-jfif.webp\" width=\"544\" height=\"538\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"wider-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/>Image: NZTA <\/p>\n<p>State Highway 8 has now reopened following the serious early morning crash in which three people\u00a0suffered critical injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the scene, between Lindis Pass-Tarras Road and Birchwood Road, about 7.40am on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Hato Hone St John said\u00a0three patients were\u00a0transported to Dunedin hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Four ambulances, three ambulances, one first response unit and\u00a0one PRIME vehicle were sent to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The section of the Lindis Pass reopened at 3.20pm after being\u00a0closed in both directions.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said road users were advised to take extra care when travelling along this route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: NZTA State Highway 8 has now reopened following the serious early morning crash in which three people\u00a0suffered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-576605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576605","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=576605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}