{"id":585156,"date":"2026-08-30T18:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/585156\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T18:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:22:12","slug":"person-dies-in-crash-in-waitaki-highway-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/585156\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dies in crash in Waitaki, highway closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person has died following a single-vehicle crash in Waitaki this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were called to the scene near Happy Valley Creek Bridge in Waihemo around 8.10am. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sadly, one person was located deceased at the scene,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p>State Highway 58, Dunback-Morrisons Rd is closed while the serious crash unit carries out a scene examination.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are advised to take an alternate route and expect delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person has died following a single-vehicle crash in Waitaki this morning. Police said they were called to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,1080,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-585156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-dunedin-otago","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\/585156","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=585156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}