{"id":234950,"date":"2026-01-15T17:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/234950\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:26:15","slug":"sunlive-two-dead-after-sh30-crash-near-rotorua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/234950\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Two dead after SH30 crash near Rotorua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Two people have died following a serious crash at Tikitere, near Rotorua, this morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the two-vehicle crash on State Highway 30 at around 4.20am.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSadly, two people were found dead at the scene,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne other person received moderate injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Road closures remain in place while the Serious Crash Unit conducts a scene examination.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Diversions are in place at the intersections of State Highway 30\/State Highway 33 and State Highway 30\/Matahi Rd.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>The NZ Transport Agency said State Highway 30 is expected to remain closed for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; Two people have died following a serious crash at Tikitere, near Rotorua, this morning. &#13; &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-234950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234950","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=234950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}