{"id":346496,"date":"2026-03-25T05:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/346496\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T05:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:11:10","slug":"71-year-old-man-killed-in-lindis-pass-crash-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/346496\/","title":{"rendered":"71-year-old man killed in Lindis Pass crash named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"There were still some campervans traversing the Lindis Pass last week, but noticeably fewer than...\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lindis20072020.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Lindis Pass. File photo<\/p>\n<p>Police have released the name of the person who died in a three-vehicle crash on the Lindis Pass (State Highway 8) earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>He was Murray Kevin Levers, 71, of Matamata in the North Island.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred between Old Faithful Rd and Omarama, near the Lindis Pass scenic lookout, about 12.20pm on Sunday, March 15.<\/p>\n<p>Three other people were injured in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Police today said they wanted to thank the motorists and first responders who acted immediately &#8220;and did everything they could to help&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into the crash remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8211; Allied Media<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lindis Pass. File photo Police have released the name of the person who died in a three-vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-346496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346496","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=346496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}