Police are appealing for information after a person was found dead on Kaipara Coast Highway in Makarau, Auckland this morning.<\/p>\n
Detective Senior Sergeant Ryan Bunting said police were called to an incident at about 5.20am where the person was located deceased on the road.<\/p>\n
Inquiries into the circumstances of the incident are ongoing, however police believe it is likely the person was struck by a vehicle.<\/p>\n
Bunting said it would like to hear from anyone who was travelling in the area between midnight and 5.30am who had seen a pedestrian walking on Kaipara Coast Highway or has dashcam footage of the area during this time.<\/p>\n
“We are also urging any residents in the Makarau area with road-facing CCTV cameras to please get in touch so that we may review this footage.”<\/p>\n
Those with information or footage are asked to contact police through 105, either over the phone or online.<\/p>\n
Bunting said the road is expected to remain closed for the next three hours while a scene examination takes place with the Serious Crash Unit.<\/p>\n
Diversions remain in place at the West Coast Road intersection and the Makarau Road intersection, and people are asked to avoid the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are appealing for information after a person was found dead on Kaipara Coast Highway in Makarau, Auckland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-210699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-auckland","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210699","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=210699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}