{"id":196908,"date":"2025-12-22T20:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/196908\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T20:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:15:07","slug":"police-release-name-of-man-who-died-in-kaitaia-motorcycle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/196908\/","title":{"rendered":"Police release name of man who died in Kait\u0101ia motorcycle crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>22 Dec, 2025 05:53 PMQuick 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\">The single-vehicle crash is still being investigated. Photo \/ Bevan Conley<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police have named a man who died in a Kait\u0101ia motorcycle crash earlier this month as Marcus Tepania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The 31-year-old was killed in a motorcycle accident on State Highway 1, near Victoria Valley Rd, at around 8.50pm on December 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Investigators were still making inquiries into the circumstances of the<br \/>\n         single-vehicle crash.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 22 Dec, 2025 05:53 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3549,6179,3602,305,78,18839,5158,98844,4486,28369,13617,10136,111,43,139,69,1118,675,2887,57918,1961,1299],"class_list":["post-196908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crash","tag-died","tag-earlier","tag-have","tag-in","tag-kaitia","tag-man","tag-marcus","tag-month","tag-motorcycle","tag-name","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-police","tag-release","tag-tepania","tag-this","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196908","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=196908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}