{"id":612012,"date":"2026-09-26T03:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T03:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/612012\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T03:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T03:20:13","slug":"delay-travel-after-motorcycle-crash-on-waikato-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/612012\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Delay travel&#8217; after motorcycle crash on Waikato highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists are being urged to &#8220;delay travel&#8221; after a motorcycle crash blocked lanes on State Highway 1 near Horsham Downs this afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said the incident was reported around 12.15pm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One person is injured and emergency services are on scene,&#8221; the spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p>Motorists were advised to delay travel. <\/p>\n<p>New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi said the northbound lanes after Lake Rd were blocked.<\/p>\n<p>St John has been contacted for comment. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, emergency services attended a serious single-vehicle crash near Whangamarino which briefly blocked all northbound lanes.<\/p>\n<p>It has since reopened between the Rodda Rd on-ramp and the Hampton Downs off-ramp. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motorists are being urged to &#8220;delay travel&#8221; after a motorcycle crash blocked lanes on State Highway 1 near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1081,15656,9001,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-612012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-accident","tag-air-travel","tag-hamilton-waikato","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612012","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=612012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}