{"id":235176,"date":"2026-01-15T20:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235176\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:27:10","slug":"two-killed-in-two-vehicle-crash-in-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235176\/","title":{"rendered":"Two killed in two-vehicle crash in Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Two people have died following a serious crash in Hamilton overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Emergency services were called to the two-vehicle crash on Te Rapa Rd, in the western Hamilton suburb of Beerescourt, at around 12.30am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Sadly, two people were located deceased at the scene,&#8217; a police spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The road between Forest Lake Rd and Vardon Rd was closed while the serious crash unit conduct a scene examination, and would reopen shortly. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Inquiries into the circumstances of the crash were ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have died following a serious crash in Hamilton overnight. Emergency services were called to the two-vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,9001,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-235176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-hamilton-waikato","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\/235176","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=235176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}