{"id":628323,"date":"2026-10-12T13:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628323\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T13:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T13:38:16","slug":"wairau-road-crash-one-person-seriously-injured-road-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628323\/","title":{"rendered":"Wairau Road crash: One person seriously injured, road blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791812296_340_WJBBNFHEO5GXLN5HCNYJJHKXTM.jpg\" alt=\"Herald Reporters\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/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 data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">One person has been seriously injured. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One person has been seriously injured in a crash involving a car and a pedestrian on Auckland\u2019s North Shore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were alerted to the crash on Wairau Road, off Tristram Avenue, just after 6.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Serious Crash Unit has been notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Wairau Road is blocked heading towards Wairau Valley.<br \/>\n         Motorists are advised to avoid the area and take alternative routes as heavy traffic builds.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3952,1558,28648,3549,10933,29819,111,43,139,529,69,5270,33551,4056,1314,23419,18484,222406],"class_list":["post-628323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-aucklands","tag-been","tag-blocked","tag-crash","tag-injured","tag-involving","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-pedestrian","tag-person","tag-road","tag-seriously","tag-shore","tag-wairau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628323","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=628323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}