{"id":639941,"date":"2026-10-24T11:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T11:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/639941\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T11:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T11:34:09","slug":"sh1-closure-between-island-block-rd-and-springhill-rd-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/639941\/","title":{"rendered":"SH1 closure between Island Block Rd and Springhill Rd after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">A witness travelling home to Te Kauwhata said they saw seven police vehicles and two fire trucks at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cTwo cars were smashed up. It looked like a high-impact crash and one car was facing the opposite direction to traffic. The airbags had definitely gone off,\u201d the witness said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">The closure was first reported at 9.21pm and there was no indication late tonight when the highway would reopen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A witness travelling home to Te Kauwhata said they saw seven police vehicles and two fire trucks at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,95,5432,1972,5201,17163,3549,296473,262978,26755,2514,3950,3180,111,43,139,69,2642,37229,48215,313718,13672],"class_list":["post-639941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-and","tag-between","tag-block","tag-closed","tag-closure","tag-crash","tag-downs","tag-hampton","tag-highway","tag-island","tag-lanes","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rd","tag-sh1","tag-southbound","tag-springhill","tag-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639941","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=639941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}