{"id":644481,"date":"2026-10-29T04:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T04:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/644481\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T04:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T04:34:15","slug":"southern-motorway-reopens-after-serious-overnight-crash-in-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/644481\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern motorway reopens after serious overnight crash in Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A section of Auckland&#8217;s Southern Motorway has reopened this morning following a serious crash overnight near Mt Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services responded to the two-vehicle crash on southbound lanes of State Highway 1 between the Ellerslie-Panmure Highway and Mt Wellington just after 1am. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The driver of one vehicle was taken to Auckland City Hospital in a critical condition, while the driver of the second vehicle was taken to hospital in a serious condition,&#8221; a police spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/emergency-services-responded-to-the-two-vehicle-crash-on-sou-VWQPAHW4OBAF5NOVLBD4NPT67M.png\" alt=\"Emergency services responded to the two-vehicle crash on southbound lanes of State Highway 1 overnight. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Emergency services responded to the two-vehicle crash on southbound lanes of State Highway 1 overnight.  (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p>A section of the southbound lanes was closed overnight, with southbound diversions in place at the Ellerslie-Panmure Highway off-ramp.<\/p>\n<p>The Serious Crash Unit examined the scene overnight, and an investigation was now underway.<\/p>\n<p>Diversions were no longer in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A section of Auckland&#8217;s Southern Motorway has reopened this morning following a serious crash overnight near Mt Wellington.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1081,51,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-644481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-accident","tag-auckland","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644481","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=644481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}