{"id":256859,"date":"2026-01-29T02:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/256859\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T02:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:05:11","slug":"husband-charged-with-careless-driving-causing-death-of-wife-julia-organ-in-waikato-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/256859\/","title":{"rendered":"Husband charged with careless driving causing death of wife, Julia Organ, in Waikato crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">Two others who were travelling in the vehicle suffered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/public-interest-open-justice\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/public-interest-open-justice\/\">serious injuries<\/a>, while one was left with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">Organ\u2019s husband, Grant Organ, was driving at the time and was charged this month with careless driving causing her death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">The 53-year-old Te Awamutu man made a brief first appearance in the Hamilton District Court last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">He did not enter a plea to the charge and is due to return to court next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/givealittle.co.nz\/cause\/support-for-grant-and-family\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/givealittle.co.nz\/cause\/support-for-grant-and-family\">Givealittle page<\/a>, set up days after the crash, has raised $4620 for the grief-stricken family. <\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">Belinda Feek is an Open Justice reporter based in Waikato. She has worked at NZME for 11 years and has been a journalist for 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two others who were travelling in the vehicle suffered serious injuries, while one was left with minor injuries.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1558,25755,11519,13239,3549,634,6179,4189,6288,10109,78,8156,111,43,139,69,1118,115254,22056,1524,1842,102,1354],"class_list":["post-256859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-been","tag-careless","tag-causing","tag-charged","tag-crash","tag-death","tag-died","tag-driving","tag-hamilton","tag-husband","tag-in","tag-julia","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-organ","tag-outskirts","tag-waikato","tag-wife","tag-with","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256859","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=256859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}