{"id":643543,"date":"2026-10-28T06:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T06:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/643543\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T06:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T06:52:13","slug":"state-highway-22-closed-after-karaka-rd-crash-injures-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/643543\/","title":{"rendered":"State Highway 22 closed after Karaka Rd crash injures 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793170333_870_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\">The crash was reported shortly after 5pm today. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Three people have been injured in a crash that has closed part of a rural South Auckland highway this evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were called to the two-vehicle collision on Karaka Rd, Karaka, shortly after 5pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Firefighters worked to free one person trapped in a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Hato Hone St John said<br \/>\n         three patients in moderate conditions were transported to hospital.\n        <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"An NZTA traffic map shows the closure of State Highway 22 between Glenbrook Rd and Blackbridge Rd after a serious crash near Karaka. Image \/ NZTA\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>An NZTA traffic map shows the closure of State Highway 22 between Glenbrook Rd and Blackbridge Rd after a serious crash near Karaka. Image \/ NZTA<\/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":643544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4727,74,51,1558,5201,3549,19555,305,26755,10933,29510,91125,111,43,139,69,5202,384,2642,3175,1240,13672,1361,1961,1529],"class_list":["post-643543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-4727","tag-after","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-closed","tag-crash","tag-evening","tag-have","tag-highway","tag-injured","tag-injures","tag-karaka","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-part","tag-people","tag-rd","tag-rural","tag-south","tag-state","tag-that","tag-this","tag-three"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643543","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=643543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}