{"id":332391,"date":"2026-03-16T14:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/332391\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:27:16","slug":"child-dies-after-three-vehicle-crash-in-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/332391\/","title":{"rendered":"Child dies after three-vehicle crash in Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4JY6UGN_Image_17_jfif\" width=\"1050\" height=\"590\" alt=\"Generic St John ambulance\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nFile photo. A child died and four other people received minor to moderate injuries.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Kim Baker Wilson\n<\/p>\n<p>A child has died following a three vehicle crash in East T\u0101maki.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the scene on Smales Road at the intersection with Te Irirangi Drive just after 8pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A child found there in a critical condition was taken to hospital, and has since died.<\/p>\n<p>Four other people received minor to moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Enquiries into the circumstances of the crash are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File photo. A child died and four other people received minor to moderate injuries. Photo: RNZ \/ Kim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277361,"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":["post-332391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332391","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=332391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}