{"id":364296,"date":"2026-04-05T02:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/364296\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:25:08","slug":"motorbike-rider-dead-after-morning-crash-at-waipu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/364296\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorbike rider dead after morning crash at Waipu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>5 Apr, 2026 01:40 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A motorbike rider has died in a crash on State Highway 1 in Northland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police were called to the single-vehicle crash involving a motorcycle near the intersection with Waipu Gorge Road just before 9.40 this morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThe rider died at the scene,\u201d police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         State Highway 1<br \/>\n         remains open.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe Serious Crash Unit has conducted a scene examination, and inquiries into the circumstances of the crash are ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 5 Apr, 2026 01:40 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1975,3549,690,6179,26755,1304,12638,111,43,139,1067,69,1071,13672,32320],"class_list":{"0":"post-364296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-at","10":"tag-crash","11":"tag-dead","12":"tag-died","13":"tag-highway","14":"tag-morning","15":"tag-motorbike","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-northland","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-rider","22":"tag-state","23":"tag-waipu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364296","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=364296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}