{"id":609737,"date":"2026-09-24T00:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/609737\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T00:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:54:12","slug":"one-person-critical-after-crash-involving-truck-and-car-state-highway-57-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/609737\/","title":{"rendered":"One person critical after crash involving truck and car, State Highway 57 now open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">It sent two ambulances and one operations manager. <\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">The Grassroots Trust Rescue Helicopter sent a helicopter  but  could not provide more information. <\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">A local said on social media that they heard a \u201chuge bang\u201d followed by sirens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">Another wrote: \u201cMy first thought was, \u2018Oh dear, that didn\u2019t sound too good, I hope it wasn\u2019t an accident\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">Drivers were initially advised to use alternative routes and expect delays while the Serious Crash Unit investigated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It sent two ambulances and one operations manager. The Grassroots Trust Rescue Helicopter sent a helicopter but could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[57908,74,95,5432,3944,3549,11728,12939,26755,10933,29819,123192,1304,111,43,139,425,69,5270,5493,4056,13672,1961,23857],"class_list":["post-609737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-57908","tag-after","tag-and","tag-between","tag-car","tag-crash","tag-critical","tag-critically","tag-highway","tag-injured","tag-involving","tag-levin","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-now","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-open","tag-person","tag-state","tag-this","tag-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609737","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=609737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}