{"id":164306,"date":"2025-12-02T12:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/164306\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:46:11","slug":"sunlive-police-seek-witnesses-to-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/164306\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Police seek witnesses to fatal crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are seeking witnesses to the fatal crash that closed a large section of the Mamaku Ranges yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/rotorua-daily-post\/news\/state-highway-5-tapapa-crash-sparks-vegetation-fire-and-traffic-delays\/ZL7I4RPEBRGUNBDBCUWGWVDPC4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/rotorua-daily-post\/news\/state-highway-5-tapapa-crash-sparks-vegetation-fire-and-traffic-delays\/ZL7I4RPEBRGUNBDBCUWGWVDPC4\/\">One person died<\/a>\u00a0after the single-vehicle crash on State Highway 5, between Harwoods and Tapapa Rds, around 10.45am.<\/p>\n<p>The car caught on fire after the crash and the fire was reported to have spread to nearby vegetation.<\/p>\n<p>Police said today they understood the vehicle, a 2006 black Mercedes Benz saloon, was driving west along SH5 towards Tirau.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice are also strongly interested in dashcam footage from people driving along the highway at the same time, and CCTV from residential or commercial properties around the area,\u201d a statement said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny information can be vital to help investigators piece together how the crash occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you saw the vehicle along your journey, or witnessed the crash, please get in touch with police either online or via call on 105.<\/p>\n<p>Please quote file number 251202\/2457.<\/p>\n<p>SH5 was closed for several hours following the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are seeking witnesses to the fatal crash that closed a large section of the Mamaku Ranges yesterday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-164306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164306","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=164306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}