{"id":239332,"date":"2026-01-18T08:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/239332\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T08:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:03:12","slug":"person-dies-day-after-serious-crash-in-whakatane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/239332\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dies day after serious crash in Whakat\u0101ne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4LJ9HX0_IMG_1842_1_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"A police car\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThe crash on Tahuna Rd involved one car. (File photo)<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi\n<\/p>\n<p>A person has died the day after a single-car crash near Whakat\u0101ne.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to Tahuna Rd about 3.40pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Two people were seriously injured in the crash initially, but police said one of the pair had now died.<\/p>\n<p>The other person remained in a serious condition in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The road was closed but had since reopened.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.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":"The crash on Tahuna Rd involved one car. (File photo) Photo: RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi A person has&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-239332","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\/239332","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=239332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239332\/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=239332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}