A homicide investigation has been launched after a man who was found in a vehicle that had collided with a tree died in Rotorua last night. <\/p>\n
Police were also seeking sightings of a van. <\/p>\n
Police were called to Ford Road just before 8.30pm after reports that a vehicle had hit a tree. <\/p>\n
“Upon arrival, the sole occupant of the vehicle was located with critical injuries,” Detective Inspector Lew Warner said. <\/p>\n
He died a short time later. <\/p>\n
Warner said initial inquiries suggested the man’s injuries were “not consistent with a crash”. <\/p>\n
Police wanted to hear from anyone who had information that could assist police with it’s investigation. <\/p>\n
“We want to hear from anybody who was in or around Ford Road between 8pm and 8:4pm yesterday,” Warner said. <\/p>\n
“Additionally, anybody who saw a white Toyota Hiace van, registration DFR734, in Ford Road or the surrounding areas.” <\/p>\n
Anyone with information was asked to call police on 105. <\/p>\n
A forensic examination of the scene would be carried out today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A homicide investigation has been launched after a man who was found in a vehicle that had collided…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,1756,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-180930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180930","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=180930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}