{"id":384584,"date":"2026-04-17T18:21:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/384584\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T18:21:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T18:21:22","slug":"one-dead-after-state-highway-49-crash-near-tangiwai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/384584\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after State Highway 49 crash near Tangiwai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776450082_274_6345565a-0d43-4f14-9b07-692939be557b.png\" alt=\" Fin  Ocheduszko Brown\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/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\">Police said one person died at the scene. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One person has died after a two-vehicle crash on State Highway 49.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services responded to the crash, near Tangiwai, in the Ruapehu district, about 6.45pm on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said one person died at the scene, and another person was treated for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         A Fire and Emergency New Zealand<br \/>\n         crew from Waiouru attended.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency Central shift manager Allison Munn said the crew assisted police for nearly six hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85040,74,3549,690,6179,26755,3180,111,43,139,69,5270,4056,13672,199578,44097],"class_list":{"0":"post-384584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-85040","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-crash","11":"tag-dead","12":"tag-died","13":"tag-highway","14":"tag-near","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-one","20":"tag-person","21":"tag-state","22":"tag-tangiwai","23":"tag-twovehicle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384584","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=384584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}