{"id":367655,"date":"2026-04-07T10:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/367655\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:18:08","slug":"person-dead-after-car-crashes-into-powerpole-house-catches-fire-in-moutoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/367655\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dead after car crashes into powerpole, house catches fire in Moutoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4JQJ2DP_Screenshot_2026_04_07_201531_png.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"637\" alt=\"A person died after crashing into a powerpole on the Foxton Shannon Road on 7 April 2026.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nA person died after crashing into a powerpole on the Foxton Shannon Road. The downed powerlines set fire to a house.<br \/>\nPhoto: Google Maps\n<\/p>\n<p>One person has died after crashing into a power pole just before 4pm in Moutoa.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened on Foxton Shannon Road between Himatangi Block and Poplar South Roads.<\/p>\n<p>Foxton Shannon Road is closed while Serious Crash Unit examines the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A house caught fire as power lines went down.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services have extinguished the fire and have not reported any injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The damage to the house is unknown.<\/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":"A person died after crashing into a powerpole on the Foxton Shannon Road. The downed powerlines set fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367656,"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":{"0":"post-367655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367655","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=367655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}