{"id":624385,"date":"2026-10-08T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624385\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:26:10","slug":"one-dead-after-highway-crash-near-temuka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624385\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after highway crash near Temuka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person has died following a two-vehicle crash on State Highway 1 near Temuka this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they\u00a0were called to the scene, near the intersection with Opuha St\u00a0East at Orari, about 3:30pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It was initially reported as involving serious injuries\u00a0but in an update about 8.25pm police confirmed a person had died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The highway was blocked for several hours while the Serious Crash Unit conducted a scene examination, but in their update police said it would reopen shortly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be a 50kmh temporary speed limit in place overnight around the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Detours were in place following the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0Allied Media<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has died following a two-vehicle crash on State Highway 1 near Temuka this afternoon. Police said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-624385","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\/624385","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=624385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}