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State Highway 1 reopens after crash in Auckland

Saturday, 25 January 2025

Traffic was held up on SH1 on Saturday due to a crash.
Traffic was held up on SH1 on Saturday due to a crash.

Auckland’s southern motorway was temporarily closed to northbound traffic after a crash in Bombay involving two vehicles.

Police said the crash was reported around 8.45am on Saturday morning and that nobody had been injured.

The highway northbound after the Nikau Rd overbridge was closed, NZ Transport Agency said, but it was reopened shortly after 10am.

Delays were expected as congestion eased, NZTA added.

An earlier version of this story said the crash was in Ōtāhuhu. It was in Bombay. (Amended 9.55am, January 25, 2025).