{"id":285233,"date":"2026-02-15T11:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/285233\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:24:16","slug":"person-dies-after-being-thrown-from-vehicle-in-northland-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/285233\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dies after being thrown from vehicle in Northland crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4OJ9JPW_copyright_image_96913.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"St John Ambulance generic\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPhoto: St John\n<\/p>\n<p>One person has died after being thrown from a vehicle in a late-night crash west of Whang\u0101rei.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to a single-vehicle crash on Knight Road in Ruatangata West about 10.50pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said one person was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Three other people were taken to hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Knight Road was closed for several hours while the Serious Crash Unit examined the scene. The road has since reopened.<\/p>\n<p>The death will be referred to the Coroner.<\/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 daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: St John One person has died after being thrown from a vehicle in a late-night crash west&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-285233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285233","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=285233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}