{"id":389779,"date":"2026-04-21T03:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389779\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T03:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T03:11:09","slug":"woman-who-died-in-napier-bus-crash-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/389779\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman who died in Napier bus crash named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4LJ9HX0_IMG_1842_1_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"A police car\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi\n<\/p>\n<p>The woman who died after being hit by a bus in Napier last Friday has been named.<\/p>\n<p>Olawande Perpetual Braimoh, 36, died at the scene of the crash on Tennyson Street on 17 April.<\/p>\n<p>She was on her way to work at the Ministry of Social Development.<\/p>\n<p>Braimoh was pregnant at the time, and had a husband and son.<\/p>\n<p>Her friend Tobi Bamidele described Braimoh as &#8220;the person who showed up &#8211; with food, prayer, laughter, and help &#8211; whenever anyone needed it,&#8221; on a givealittle page started to raise funds for the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi The woman who died after being hit by a bus in Napier last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3500,"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-389779","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\/389779","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=389779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}