{"id":624023,"date":"2026-10-08T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624023\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T05:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:00:09","slug":"state-highway-1-temuka-orari-highway-closed-after-serious-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624023\/","title":{"rendered":"State Highway 1 Temuka-\u014crari Highway closed after serious crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">\n         NZ<br \/>\n         Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) said the highway was now closed between Orari Station Rd and Wincester-Geraldine Rd.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"INdwqXkrxOG\" style=\"display:none\">A detour is in place, with southbound traffic directed via Orari Station Rd, Coach Rd and Winchester-Geraldine Rd. Northbound motorists should follow the same route in reverse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"INdwqXkrxOG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe Police Serious Crash Unit will be attending and their investigations can take several hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"INdwqXkrxOG\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency New Zealand said three crews from Geraldine responded. A shift manager directed further questions to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"INdwqXkrxOG\" style=\"display:none\">Motorists were asked to delay travel plans if possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"INdwqXkrxOG\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John said two patients were taken to Timaru Hospital, one in a moderate condition and the other in a minor condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) said the highway was now closed between Orari Station Rd and Wincester-Geraldine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,8126,5201,3549,26755,10933,5840,661,111,43,139,69,4056,1238,23419,13672,306739,102],"class_list":["post-624023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-canterbury","tag-closed","tag-crash","tag-highway","tag-injured","tag-least","tag-major","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-serious","tag-seriously","tag-state","tag-temukarari","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624023","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=624023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}