{"id":364620,"date":"2026-04-05T08:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T08:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/364620\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T08:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T08:27:17","slug":"easter-road-toll-rises-to-three-after-northland-motorcycle-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/364620\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter road toll rises to three after Northland motorcycle death"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RNZ\/Reece<\/p>\n

\nPolice said the single vehicle crash occurred on State Highway 1 in Waipu on Sunday morning about 9.40am.
\nPhoto: RNZ \/ REECE BAKER\n<\/p>\n

The Easter holiday road toll has risen to three, after the death of a motorcyclist in Northland.<\/p>\n

Police said the single vehicle crash occurred on State Highway 1 in Waipu on Sunday morning about 9.40am, near the intersection with Waipu Gorge Road.<\/p>\n

The rider died at the scene.<\/p>\n

Earlier this weekend, a person was killed in the Northland town of Kaitaia<\/a> when a vehicle hit a tree.<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to that crash near the intersection of North Road and Farrimond Place at 10.30pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The driver – who was the sole occupant of the vehicle – died at the scene.<\/p>\n

On Good Friday, a person died when two vehicles collided near Motueka<\/a> in the Tasman District.<\/p>\n

The crash happened at the intersection of Coastal Highway (SH60) and Easton Loop at about 2.45pm.<\/p>\n

One person died at the scene, while a second person was moderately injured.<\/p>\n

The Easter road toll period ends at 6am on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said the single vehicle crash occurred on State Highway 1 in Waipu on Sunday morning about 9.40am.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7590,"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":{"0":"post-364620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364620","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=364620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}