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State Highway 1 Accidents Today — Live Corridor Watch

Quick answer: 0 news reports naming the State Highway 1 in the last 24 hours, 10 in the last 7 days (headlines state 1 death); 2 official live incidents on or near the road right now; 1 geocoded report within 20 km. The State Highway 1 is New Zealand's main road, 2,033 km through Auckland, Hamilton, Taupō, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin on both islands.

Reports naming the State Highway 1

last 24 hours

Last 7 days

headline mentions

Official incidents now

within 20 km of the road

2,033

Kilometres

8 waypoints · Auckland → Invercargill

— zones in view

State Highway 1 corridor Accident report · last 24h Official traffic incident Toggle CAMERAS on the map for live views

Headlines

Latest reports naming the State Highway 1

News items from the last 7 days whose headline names the road, country-matched. Every item links to the publisher.

road Two-car crash blocks SH1, forcing traffic to divert - ODT www.odt.co.nz · 2 days ago

road One dead after crash on SH1 in South Canterbury - Stuff www.stuff.co.nz · 3 days ago

road Detour Available For SH1 Crash Closure - Scoop - New Zealand News business.scoop.co.nz · 4 days ago

road SH1 Closed After Orari Crash - Scoop - New Zealand News business.scoop.co.nz · 4 days ago

road Serious Crash On SH1 In South Canterbury - Scoop - New Zealand News business.scoop.co.nz · 4 days ago

road ‘Enriched the lives of everyone’: Much-loved grandparents killed in SH1 crash - Stuff www.stuff.co.nz · 4 days ago

road Two people taken to hospital following serious crash near Orari, SH1 blocked - The Press www.thepress.co.nz · 4 days ago

road ‘More like a police crawl’: Spiked car leads cops on slow-speed SH1 chase - Stuff www.stuff.co.nz · 5 days ago

road Traffic builds on SH1 in Auckland after digger on truck hits overbridge - Stuff www.stuff.co.nz · 6 days ago

road WATCH: Traffic builds up on SH1 in Auckland after crash - Stuff www.stuff.co.nz · 6 days ago

Official feeds

Live incidents on or near the State Highway 1 right now

Transport-authority and traffic-data incidents within 20 km of the centreline, nearest first.

Source	Area	Details	km from road
NZTA	New Zealand	SH 1 Kaikoura to Cheviot: Area Warning — Flooding	3.8
NZTA	New Zealand	SH 1 Karapiro: Road Hazard — Crash	18.5

Geocoded

Accident reports placed within 20 km of the State Highway 1 (24 h)

City-level placements from the live feed — the dot marks the city named in the headline, not the exact carriageway.

Christchurch · 0.2 km Christchurch beach drowning: Man dies despite efforts of local surfers - NZ Herald 10 hr ago

Official DOT feeds · live snapshots

Live traffic cameras along the State Highway 1

Public traffic-camera snapshots nearest to the latest geocoded reports on this page, straight from the transport authority. Images refresh on their own schedule (seconds to minutes); a camera is picked by distance and is not necessarily pointed at the incident.

Traffic camera: SH1/SH16 Central Mwy Junction — **SH1/SH16 Central Mwy Junction**NZ Transport Agency cameras · 1.1 km from: Auckland

Traffic camera: SH1 Clifton Terrace — **SH1 Clifton Terrace**NZ Transport Agency cameras · 0.9 km from: Wellington

Traffic camera: SH76 Burlington St — **SH76 Burlington St**NZ Transport Agency cameras · 1.9 km from: Christchurch

Traffic camera: SH1 St Andrew St — **SH1 St Andrew St**NZ Transport Agency cameras · 0.7 km from: Dunedin

Traffic camera: SH6 Blenheim — **SH6 Blenheim**NZ Transport Agency cameras · 40 km from centre

Traffic camera: SH1 Spring Creek — **SH1 Spring Creek**NZ Transport Agency cameras · 41 km from centre

Traffic camera: SH1 Picton North — **SH1 Picton North**NZ Transport Agency cameras · 42 km from centre

Traffic camera: SH1 Blenheim North — **SH1 Blenheim North**NZ Transport Agency cameras · 42 km from centre

Camera data: NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (CC BY 4.0) (all 247 cameras). Snapshots are served by the authority and are not stored by this site. Cameras marked Live video play inline; the rest are still images refreshed by the authority.

Questions

State Highway 1 — FAQ

Is there an accident on the State Highway 1 today?

No news report naming the State Highway 1 has reached our feeds in the last 24 hours. The list below shows the most recent mentions from the last 7 days; official live incidents inside the corridor appear in the table when an authority publishes them.

Where does this State Highway 1 page get its data?

Three places, none of them estimated: (1) news headlines from GDELT, Google News RSS and GNews that name the road, country-matched so the British M1 and the Pakistani M-1 are never mixed up; (2) official incident feeds already on this site (511 systems, state DOT ArcGIS layers, city feeds, MapQuest) filtered to points within 20 km of the road's centreline; (3) the live traffic-camera index for cameras nearest to each waypoint.

How is 'near the State Highway 1' defined?

The road is stored as 8 waypoints (Auckland, Hamilton, Taupō, Palmerston North…). A report or incident counts as on the corridor when it lies within 20 km of the line between those waypoints. City-level geocoded reports are approximate by nature — they mark the city, not the exact carriageway.

What should I do if I am in a crash on the State Highway 1?

Get to a safe place away from live lanes if you can, call 111, and give the direction, junction or mile marker. Do not stand between vehicles or on the hard shoulder longer than necessary. This page is informational and updates every 15 minutes; it is not an emergency service.

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Corridor pages are computed from feeds already on this site (official incidents, news, cameras) — nothing here is estimated. Country context: New Zealand accidents today.