{"id":631635,"date":"2026-10-15T18:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T18:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/631635\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T18:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T18:36:20","slug":"two-seriously-hurt-as-crash-closes-highway-south-of-dunedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/631635\/","title":{"rendered":"Two seriously hurt as crash closes highway south of Dunedin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have been seriously hurt in a two-vehicle crash which has closed a section of highway south of Dunedin.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services are at the scene of the two-vehicle crash at the intersection of SH1 and Tutu Hill Road.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the crash\u00a0about 4.20pm on Thursday afternoon, a spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo people are reported to have serious injuries while a third has moderate injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Road users are advised to delay their journey or avoid the area, NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been seriously hurt in a two-vehicle crash which has closed a section of highway south&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-631635","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\/631635","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=631635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}