{"id":199095,"date":"2025-12-24T03:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/199095\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T03:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:31:08","slug":"sunlive-opotiki-fatal-police-name-45-year-old-who-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/199095\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; \u014cp\u014dtiki fatal: Police name 45-year-old who died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have released the name of the man who died following a motorcycle crash on State Highway 35 in the Bay of Plenty.<\/p>\n<p>He was 45\u2011year\u2011old Steven Haskell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/motorcyclist-dies-after-crash-on-state-highway-35-near-opotiki\/HSQXM7U4VBGGPHDYH5ICCXJU2A\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/motorcyclist-dies-after-crash-on-state-highway-35-near-opotiki\/HSQXM7U4VBGGPHDYH5ICCXJU2A\/\">The crash<\/a>, near \u014cp\u014dtiki, was reported to police at 8.25pm Friday, December 19.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the crash, police a \u201cmotorcyclist was critically injured in the crash and tragically passed away a short time later\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement today, police extended their condolences, saying their thoughts were with Haskell\u2019s family and loved ones during this difficult time.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the circumstances of the crash was ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have released the name of the man who died following a motorcycle crash on State Highway 35&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-199095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199095","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=199095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}