Heavy rainfall caused flooding in the area making the stretch of highway unsafe to travel on.

Motorists are being urged to drive to the conditions and be aware of possible flooding along other parts of the highway.

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Other Upper North Island News

28 Feb: One person's died in a single vehicle crash, in Te Kopuru, south of Northland's Dargaville this morning

27 Feb: A man will appear in Napier District Court today facing a charge of the murder of Rotorua woman Sharlene Smith

27 Feb: It's expected to be months before storm-ravaged highways on the Coromandel Peninsula are fully restored

26 Feb: An IT outage affected radiology departments in Auckland and Northland hospitals this afternoon

26 Feb: Two women will appear in court today - and a man next month - in relation to a reported shooting in Waikato's Te Kauwhata, north of Huntly

25 Feb: A 24-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving in relation to a fatal crash on State Highway One south of Taupo

24 Feb: A car driver's died after a crash between a truck and a car about 11am on Waikato's State Highway 2 - near Mangatawhiri

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