{"id":346965,"date":"2026-03-25T11:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/346965\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:45:13","slug":"two-dead-after-car-flips-upside-down-into-stream-in-rural-wellington-suburb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/346965\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead after car flips upside down into stream in rural Wellington suburb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yUwWNyfsvD\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019ve witnessed cars having a head-on collision on the stretch before and a bunch of near misses. I haven\u2019t really had a chance to let it sink in. I\u2019ve talked to some of the locals this morning, and they\u2019re really shocked,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yUwWNyfsvD\" style=\"display:none\">In an update, police said two people were found dead in the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yUwWNyfsvD\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cInquiries into the circumstances of the deaths are ongoing,\u201d a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yUwWNyfsvD\" style=\"display:none\">M\u0101kara Rd was closed while police examined the scene  and has since reopened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019ve witnessed cars having a head-on collision on the stretch before and a bunch of near misses. I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,3944,3549,690,6097,124645,78,296,101,111,43,139,69,384,3175,31788,132503,17294,1237,21734,52],"class_list":["post-346965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-car","tag-crash","tag-dead","tag-down","tag-flips","tag-in","tag-into","tag-left","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-rural","tag-stream","tag-submerged","tag-suburb","tag-two","tag-upside","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346965","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=346965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}