{"id":367870,"date":"2026-04-07T13:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/367870\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:18:08","slug":"foxton-shannon-rd-crash-one-dead-after-car-hits-power-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/367870\/","title":{"rendered":"Foxton Shannon Rd crash: One dead after car hits power pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Motorists are being warned to avoid Foxton Shannon Rd after a serious one-vehicle crash this afternoon. Image \/ Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A person has died and powerlines are down after a car hit a power pole near Foxton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were alerted to a serious crash on Foxton Shannon Rd between Himatangi Block and Poplar South Roads just before 4pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         One person has died, prompting an inquiry into the circumstances of<br \/>\n         the accident.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">The road has been closed and delays for motorists are expected to continue as police conduct a scene examination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">The power company has been alerted to downed powerlines in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c SaveShare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,3944,3549,690,6179,6097,60238,4508,3180,111,43,139,69,5270,4056,23897,10112,30855,2642,162419],"class_list":{"0":"post-367870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-car","10":"tag-crash","11":"tag-dead","12":"tag-died","13":"tag-down","14":"tag-foxton","15":"tag-hits","16":"tag-near","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-one","22":"tag-person","23":"tag-pole","24":"tag-power","25":"tag-powerlines","26":"tag-rd","27":"tag-shannon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367870","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=367870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}