{"id":82744,"date":"2025-10-16T18:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/82744\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T18:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:45:08","slug":"putaruru-crash-closes-state-highway-28-in-south-waikato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/82744\/","title":{"rendered":"Putaruru crash closes State Highway 28 in South Waikato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rotorua Daily Post<\/p>\n<p>16 Oct, 2025 05:29 PMQuick Read<\/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 class=\"\">A South Waikato road is closed following a serious crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police were called to the two-vehicle crash on State Highway 28\/Whites Rd, Putaruru about 5.20am. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The road is closed at both ends and diversions are in place at the SH1 and SH5 intersection, a police statement said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cInitial<br \/>\n         indicators are that there are serious injuries.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rotorua Daily Post 16 Oct, 2025 05:29 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41051,5201,18509,3549,5504,26755,78,111,43,139,69,63512,1314,1238,1240,13672,1524],"class_list":["post-82744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-41051","tag-closed","tag-closes","tag-crash","tag-following","tag-highway","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-putaruru","tag-road","tag-serious","tag-south","tag-state","tag-waikato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82744","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=82744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}