{"id":309219,"date":"2026-03-02T09:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/309219\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:51:11","slug":"kamo-rd-whangarei-crash-police-probe-continues-after-pedestrian-fatally-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/309219\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamo Rd Whang\u0101rei crash: Police probe continues after pedestrian fatally hit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BrodieBrodie Stone<\/a><\/p>\n

Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Northern Advocate\u00b7<\/p>\n

2 Mar, 2026 03:00 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n

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Emergency services at the scene of a crash involving a truck and pedestrian on Kamo Rd. Photo \/ Brodie Stone<\/p>\n

The investigation into a crash in Whang\u0101rei where a pedestrian was fatally struck by a truck is ongoing, police say. <\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to Kamo Rd on Thursday morning outside Cafe Narnia, in the suburb of Kensington. <\/p>\n

\n Initial reports suggested serious injuries were involved, but police later
\n confirmed a person had died.\n <\/p>\n

They are yet to release the person\u2019s name. <\/p>\n

Kamo Rd was closed <\/a>between Mains Ave and Simons St for most of Thursday while the Serious Crash Unit attended and the scene was cleared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brodie Stone Multimedia Journalist\u00b7Northern Advocate\u00b7 2 Mar, 2026 03:00 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,13982,3549,33445,3594,296,12898,74025,111,43,139,69,6379,33551,675,28758,2642,5659,20705,23857,1869,540],"class_list":{"0":"post-309219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-continues","10":"tag-crash","11":"tag-fatally","12":"tag-hit","13":"tag-into","14":"tag-investigation","15":"tag-kamo","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-ongoing","21":"tag-pedestrian","22":"tag-police","23":"tag-probe","24":"tag-rd","25":"tag-say","26":"tag-struck","27":"tag-truck","28":"tag-whangrei","29":"tag-where"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309219","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=309219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}