{"id":602910,"date":"2026-09-17T05:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/602910\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T05:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T05:28:10","slug":"christchurch-southern-motorway-crash-one-seriously-injured-after-car-and-truck-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/602910\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch Southern Motorway crash: One seriously injured after car and truck collide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>17 Sep, 2026 04:09 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One person has been seriously injured following a crash between a car and a truck that closed part of Christchurch\u2019s Southern Motorway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services responded to the crash near the Curletts Rd on-ramp about 3pm today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police said the motorway was partially blocked westbound between the Curletts Rd on-ramp and<br \/>\n         Shands Rd off-ramp.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"RtOFIuelh\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John said it assessed two patients and transported one in a serious condition to Christchurch Hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"RtOFIuelh\" style=\"display:none\">Motorists are advised to avoid the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 17 Sep, 2026 04:09 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,95,1558,5432,3944,4487,50545,5201,28647,3549,5504,10933,3945,111,43,139,69,5270,5202,4056,23419,171,1361,23857],"class_list":["post-602910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-and","tag-been","tag-between","tag-car","tag-christchurch","tag-christchurchs","tag-closed","tag-collide","tag-crash","tag-following","tag-injured","tag-motorway","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-part","tag-person","tag-seriously","tag-southern","tag-that","tag-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602910","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=602910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}