{"id":184509,"date":"2025-12-15T07:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/184509\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T07:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:57:08","slug":"waikato-crash-on-arapuni-rd-police-launch-critical-incident-investigation-after-one-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/184509\/","title":{"rendered":"Waikato crash on Arapuni Rd: Police launch critical incident investigation after one killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cTwo people in the offending vehicle were seriously injured, another two passengers in that vehicle received minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe deceased was the driver of the second vehicle, that the offending vehicle collided with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">A passenger in the second vehicle also sustained serious injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">Police are offering support to the family of the deceased, as well as the staff involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">Police are seeking anyone who has witnessed or who may have dashcam or CCTV footage of the events leading up to the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">If you have information, please update police by calling 105, citing event number P064790633.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere are now several investigations underway, which will work to establish all the facts surrounding this tragic incident,\u201d Loughrin said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">The Independent Police Conduct Authority has been notified, as is standard procedure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTwo people in the offending vehicle were seriously injured, another two passengers in that vehicle received minor injuries.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,116621,3549,11728,11784,305,42,671,12898,3375,3331,1743,43,90,5270,675,2642,40,38,41,39,1524],"class_list":["post-184509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-arapuni","tag-crash","tag-critical","tag-fatal","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-incident","tag-investigation","tag-killed","tag-launch","tag-launched","tag-news","tag-on","tag-one","tag-police","tag-rd","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-waikato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184509","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=184509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}