{"id":593588,"date":"2026-09-08T05:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T05:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/593588\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T05:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T05:24:12","slug":"bus-truck-crash-on-aucklands-sh1-closed-lanes-for-four-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/593588\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus, truck crash on Auckland’s SH1 closed lanes for four hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

A bus and truck crash on Auckland’s Northern Motorway this morning left one person injured \u2013 with northbound lanes closed for more than four hours until one lane could be reopened. <\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to the incident near the Oteha Valley off-ramp just after 6am.<\/p>\n

Police said the crash was between a bus and a truck and trailer. The bus sustained substantial damage in the impact that also tipped the trailer onto its side.<\/p>\n

One person received minor injuries. <\/p>\n

In an update just after 11am, NZ Transport Agency said the clean-up was ongoing, with one northbound lane reopened. All lanes in that direction had previously been shut. <\/p>\n

\"Emergency<\/p>\n

Emergency services respond to a crash on Auckland’s Northern Motorway. (Source: Supplied)<\/p>\n

Lizelle Erasmus was getting out of her car at the nearby Albany Bus Station when she witnessed the crash.<\/p>\n

She told 1News the truck hit the back-right corner of the bus, crashed into the centre barrier, and the trailer flipped over.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw smoke coming from the bus and the driver opening the doors.\u201d<\/p>\n

The damage to the rear of the bus was severe, she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really glad the bus was empty \u2013 if someone was in the back, they would have been seriously injured or dead.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bus and truck crash on Auckland’s Northern Motorway this morning left one person injured \u2013 with northbound…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1081,51,111,43,139,69,112],"class_list":["post-593588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-accident","tag-auckland","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593588","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=593588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}