{"id":188420,"date":"2025-12-17T15:23:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/188420\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T15:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:23:15","slug":"kaikohe-fatal-crash-mother-of-11yo-girl-relieved-someone-being-held-to-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/188420\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaikohe fatal crash: Mother of 11yo girl relieved someone being held to account"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSerious Crash investigations can be complex and ultimately take time to be carried out. It\u2019s important for the victims and families that this takes place,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice have maintained contact with wh\u0101nau through the investigation process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Staci\u2019s mother Candice Walkley said it was a relief the next step has started.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a relief that we\u2019re finally on the move; it\u2019s bringing a lot of peace for the family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walkley described Staci as a happy-go-lucky girl who touched a lot of hearts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer heart was so big for everyone. No matter what, she always had a smile on her face.\u201d<\/p>\n

Denise Piper is a news reporter<\/a> for the Northern Advocate, focusing on health and business. She has more than 20 years in journalism and is passionate about covering stories that make a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSerious Crash investigations can be complex and ultimately take time to be carried out. It\u2019s important for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[52495,72211,29184,642,682,3549,6179,11784,6868,42,14236,30616,6178,43,1118,110884,55142,10536,118297,61,40,38,41,39,69893],"class_list":["post-188420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-11yearold","tag-11yo","tag-account","tag-august","tag-being","tag-crash","tag-died","tag-fatal","tag-girl","tag-headlines","tag-held","tag-kaikohe","tag-mother","tag-news","tag-of","tag-pleased","tag-relieved","tag-someone","tag-staci","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-walkley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188420","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=188420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}