{"id":109418,"date":"2025-10-30T20:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/109418\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:18:10","slug":"fatal-crashes-in-aucklands-epsom-matamata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/109418\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal crashes in Auckland&#8217;s Epsom, Matamata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people died in separate crashes in Auckland&#8217;s Epsom and Matamata in Waikato yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>In Auckland, emergency services were called to a single vehicle crash on Great South Rd at around 6.45pm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sadly, despite best efforts, one person died at the scene,&#8221; a police spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/emergency-services-were-called-to-the-single-vehicle-crash-a-N7SCSNWILNAXTDFQQNTEVP65DI.png\" alt=\"Emergency services at the Auckland crash. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Emergency services at the Auckland crash.  (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p>Inquiries into the circumstances of the crash were ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, police were called to the intersection of Waharoa Road East and Pohlen Road in Matamata around 4.40pm, where a two-vehicle crash had occurred. <\/p>\n<p>One person died at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people died in separate crashes in Auckland&#8217;s Epsom and Matamata in Waikato yesterday. In Auckland, emergency services&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1081,51,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-109418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-auckland","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109418","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=109418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}