{"id":210539,"date":"2025-12-31T20:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/210539\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T20:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:48:07","slug":"person-found-dead-on-kaipara-coast-highway-north-of-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/210539\/","title":{"rendered":"Person found dead on Kaipara Coast Highway, north of Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4LJ9HX0_IMG_1842_1_jpg.webp\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"A police car\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi\n<\/p>\n<p>One person has been found dead on Kaipara Coast Highway, north of Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>Police had earlier asked motorists to avoid the village of Makarau after an &#8220;incident&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, police said officers were called to the scene about 5.20am this morning &#8220;where a person was found deceased on the road&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The death is being treated as unexplained and enquiries into the circumstances are underway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police said a scene examination was being carried out and the road would remain closed.<\/p>\n<p>Cordons were in place at the West Coast Road intersection and the Makarau Road intersection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The public is advised to avoid the area, and motorists should take alternative routes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rnz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi One person has been found dead on Kaipara Coast Highway, north of Auckland.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-210539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210539","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=210539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}