{"id":603492,"date":"2026-09-17T18:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T18:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/603492\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T18:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T18:44:13","slug":"person-seriously-injured-in-motorway-crash-between-car-and-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/603492\/","title":{"rendered":"Person seriously injured in motorway crash between car and truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person has been seriously injured in a crash involving a car and truck which has blocked Christchurch\u2019s Southern Motorway for a time.<\/p>\n<p>The crash, on State Highway 76 between the Curletts Rd on-ramp and Shands Rd off-ramp, was reported to emergency services about 3pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said\u00a0the motorway was blocked for westbound traffic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe motorway is down to one lane for traffic leaving the city after a crash between a car and truck at around 3pm today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne person is reported to be in a serious condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMotorists are advised to avoid the area at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an update about 4.45pm police advised the road had reopened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has been seriously injured in a crash involving a car and truck which has blocked Christchurch\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-603492","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\/603492","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=603492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}