{"id":375093,"date":"2026-04-11T22:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/375093\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:12:08","slug":"early-morning-rongotea-e-bike-crash-leaves-cyclist-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/375093\/","title":{"rendered":"Early morning Rongotea e-bike crash leaves cyclist dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>11 Apr, 2026 08:53 PMQuick 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 data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Emergency services were called to Banks Rd, Rongotea, at about 12.40am. Photo \/ Dean Purcell<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A person has died after a crash on an electric bike in Manawat\u016b.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police were called to a single-vehicle crash involving an electric bicycle on Banks Rd, Rongotea at about 12.40am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cSadly, the rider died at the scene,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cThe Serious Crash Unit conducted a scene examination, and the<br \/>\n         road has now reopened.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 11 Apr, 2026 08:53 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1070,3549,23676,690,6179,2245,14035,14037,7973,10509,1304,111,43,139,69,4056,195694],"class_list":{"0":"post-375093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-bike","10":"tag-crash","11":"tag-cyclist","12":"tag-dead","13":"tag-died","14":"tag-early","15":"tag-ebike","16":"tag-electric","17":"tag-leaves","18":"tag-manawat","19":"tag-morning","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-person","25":"tag-rongotea"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375093","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=375093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}