{"id":363938,"date":"2026-04-04T21:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/363938\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:02:10","slug":"person-dies-after-vehicle-plunges-into-tree-in-northland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/363938\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dies after vehicle plunges into tree in Northland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4M2WHSW_copyright_image_277087\" width=\"1050\" height=\"644\" alt=\"No caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThe driver died at the scene.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi\n<\/p>\n<p>One person has died after their vehicle plunged into a tree in Kaitaia, Northland.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the crash near the intersection of North Road and Farrimond Place at 10:30pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The driver &#8211; who was the sole occupant of the vehicle &#8211; died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Enquiries into the cause of the crash are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4JQNQBI_Screenshot_2026_04_05_074800_png.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"517\" alt=\"Emergency services were called to the crash near the intersection of North Road and Farrimond Place.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nEmergency services were called to the crash near the intersection of North Road and Farrimond Place.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied\/Google Maps Street View\n<\/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>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver died at the scene. Photo: RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi One person has died after their vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-363938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363938","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=363938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}