{"id":169748,"date":"2025-12-05T16:40:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/169748\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T16:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:40:20","slug":"sunlive-whakatane-crash-victim-named-witnesses-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/169748\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive – Whakat\u0101ne crash victim named, witnesses sought"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police have named the person who died in an Eastern Bay of Plenty crash this week.<\/p>\n

She was Ngahina Takarangi, 44, of Whakat\u0101ne.<\/p>\n

Another person was seriously injured in the crash.<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to White Pine Bush Rd near T\u0101neatua about 6.05pm on Tuesday after reports a car had crashed into the Whakat\u0101ne River.<\/p>\n

Police said today the crash was under investigation and they were seeking witnesses.<\/p>\n

\"\"The crash happened near T\u0101neatua on Tuesday night. Photo \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019d like to hear from anybody who saw a red Honda Accord travelling in and around T\u0101neatua between 5.30pm and 6pm on Tuesday, 2 December.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information was asked to contact the police via 105, either over the phone or online. Please reference the file number 251202\/5566.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have named the person who died in an Eastern Bay of Plenty crash this week. She was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-169748","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\/169748","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=169748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}