{"id":611858,"date":"2026-09-25T23:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T23:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/611858\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T23:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T23:46:11","slug":"whangamarino-crash-closes-all-four-lanes-of-waikato-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/611858\/","title":{"rendered":"Whangamarino crash closes all four lanes of Waikato Expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>25 Sep, 2026 09:49 PMQuick 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=\"\"> All four lanes of the Waikato Expressway are closed near Whangamarino after a serious crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A police spokesperson said the single-vehicle crash was on the northbound side of the expressway, between the Rodda Rd on-ramp and Hampton Downs off-ramp.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Google Maps shows the stretch of the Waikato Expressway near Whangamarino where all four lanes have been closed following a serious crash. Photo \/ Google Maps\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Google Maps shows the stretch of the Waikato Expressway near Whangamarino where all four lanes have been closed following a serious crash. Photo \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Hato Hone St John said it  sent two ambulances<br \/>\n         to the scene about 9am.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">Crews were treating three people, including one in serious condition and two in moderate condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 25 Sep, 2026 09:49 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,5263,5201,18509,3549,38121,3011,3950,3180,111,43,139,69,1118,1238,1524,301391],"class_list":["post-611858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-all","tag-closed","tag-closes","tag-crash","tag-expressway","tag-four","tag-lanes","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-serious","tag-waikato","tag-whangamarino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611858","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=611858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}