State Highway 1 has reopened following a large diesel spill near Evansdale, north of Dunedin.<\/p>\n
Police were notified just before 6am on Monday\u00a0of the spill,\u00a0just\u00a0north of Evansdale Glen Rd, and said it\u00a0affected\u00a0multiple lanes.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s understood a milk tanker\u00a0lost traction and wound up across the\u00a0road.<\/p>\n
A witness said traffic had been\u00a0backed up to Waitati.<\/p>\n
The road was\u00a0 closed\u00a0between the settlements of Waikouaiti and Evansdale for a few hours.\u00a0 Light vehicles had to detour via the Coast Rd but this route was not\u00a0suitable for heavy vehicles.<\/p>\n
The New Zealand Transport Agency\/Waka Kotahi advised motorists to\u00a0 take extra care through SH1\u00a0and adhere to temporary speed limits in place.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile further north, a serious crash has closed part of SH1 in Mid-Canterbury\u00a0between\u00a0 Racecourse Rd and Northpark Rd.<\/p>\n
A detour was in place.<\/p>\n
– Allied Media\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State Highway 1 has reopened following a large diesel spill near Evansdale, north of Dunedin. Police were notified…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-592378","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\/592378","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=592378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}