{"id":597259,"date":"2026-09-11T16:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/597259\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T16:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:16:12","slug":"motorcyclist-dies-after-crash-with-truck-in-invercargill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/597259\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist dies after crash with truck in Invercargill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A motorcyclist has died following a crash with a truck in Invercargill last night. <\/p>\n<p>Police were called to Clyde Street, near Crinan Street, after a crash involving a truck and motorcycle around 9.30pm. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sadly, the motorcyclist was located deceased at the scene,&#8221; a police spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p>The serious crash unit was in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>The road remained closed this morning, and motorists were advised to expect delays.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi said a separate crash had closed State Highway 1 between Tweed St and Bond St in Invercargill this morning. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Road users are advised to avoid the area or delay their journey if possible. The road is expected to remain closed for several hours,&#8221; an NZTA spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p>Northbound traffic turn left onto Bond St, right onto Tweed St, left back onto SH1. Southbound traffic turn left onto Tweed St, right onto Nith St and continue onto SH1. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorcyclist has died following a crash with a truck in Invercargill last night. Police were called to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1081,111,43,139,69,15488],"class_list":["post-597259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-accident","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-southland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597259","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=597259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}