{"id":213246,"date":"2026-01-02T13:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/213246\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T13:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:45:18","slug":"update-kaipara-coast-highway-incident-makarau-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/213246\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Kaipara Coast Highway incident, Makarau, Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person has been located deceased on Kaipara Coast Highway, Makarau, Auckland, this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to an incident around 5.20am where a person was found deceased on the road.<\/p>\n<p>The death is being treated as unexplained and enquiries into the circumstances are underway.<\/p>\n<p>A scene examination is taking place, and the road remains closed with cordons in place at the West Coast Road intersection and the Makarau Road intersection.<\/p>\n<p>The public is advised to avoid the area, and motorists should take alternative routes.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>Issued by Police Media Centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has been located deceased on Kaipara Coast Highway, Makarau, Auckland, this morning. Police were called to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-213246","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\/213246","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=213246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}