{"id":621864,"date":"2026-10-06T02:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T02:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621864\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T02:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T02:34:15","slug":"southland-highway-reopens-after-critical-injury-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621864\/","title":{"rendered":"Southland highway reopens after critical injury crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Southland highway has reopened after a crash that left four people injured, one critically, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokeswoman said they were called to the two-vehicle crash, on State Highway 99\/Stafford St between Dover St and Dudley St West in Orepuki, about 12.40pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne person received critical injuries, two people received moderate injuries and one person received minor injuries,\u201d the spokeswoman said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The road was closed all afternoon and into the evening, to allow for a Serious Crash Unit investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Just before 7pm, NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi advised it had reopened<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Southland highway has reopened after a crash that left four people injured, one critically, on Monday. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-621864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621864","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=621864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}