{"id":184852,"date":"2025-12-15T13:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/184852\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:23:09","slug":"rotorua-driver-who-died-in-sh5-mamaku-fiery-crash-named-inquiries-ongoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/184852\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotorua driver who died in SH5 Mamaku fiery crash named, inquiries ongoing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bay of Plenty Times<\/p>\n<p>15 Dec, 2025 01:00 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Emergency services were called to the crash on December 1. Photo \/ File<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police have named the man who  died following a crash on State Highway 5 on December 1  in the Mamaku Ranges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He was 51-year-old, Brett Biddle, of Rotorua.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Biddle died after  the crash on  SH5, between Harwoods and Tapapa Rds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         In an earlier statement, police said<br \/>\n         the car caught on fire after the crash and the fire was reported to have spread to nearby vegetation.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"ZYUOfoYRjneFbDGdUm\" style=\"display:none\">Police said later they understood the vehicle, a 2006 black Mercedes Benz saloon, was driving west along SH5 towards Tirau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bay of Plenty Times 15 Dec, 2025 01:00 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3549,7500,6179,19552,64600,5504,305,26755,78,84841,39575,10136,111,43,139,69,6379,675,116761,1327,116760,13672,1299],"class_list":["post-184852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crash","tag-december","tag-died","tag-driver","tag-fiery","tag-following","tag-have","tag-highway","tag-in","tag-inquiries","tag-mamaku","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ongoing","tag-police","tag-ranges","tag-rotorua","tag-sh5","tag-state","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184852","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=184852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}