{"id":378457,"date":"2026-04-14T05:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T05:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/378457\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T05:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T05:09:08","slug":"second-person-dies-after-crash-between-car-and-truck-in-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/378457\/","title":{"rendered":"Second person dies after crash between car and truck in Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A second person has died following a crash between a car and truck in Hamilton yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>Inspector Scott Miller said the crash, involving a car with four people inside and a truck, occurred on Wairere Drive near Pukete around 2.30pm Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One person died at the scene and three others were taken to hospital,&#8221; Miller said. <\/p>\n<p>Miller confirmed a second person died in Waikato Hospital overnight, while two others remained in a serious condition. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police extend their condolences to the families of all of those involved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would also like to thank the members of the public who came to the aid of those who were injured and assisted at the scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Investigations were underway to determine the circumstances of the crash. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second person has died following a crash between a car and truck in Hamilton yesterday. Inspector Scott&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9001,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-378457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-hamilton-waikato","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378457","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=378457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}