{"id":390985,"date":"2026-04-21T20:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/390985\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:38:08","slug":"person-dies-in-crash-north-of-taupo-sh1-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/390985\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dies in crash north of Taup\u014d, SH1 closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person died and a second was seriously injured in a crash north of Taup\u014d late last night.<\/p>\n<p>The two-vehicle crash occured on State Highway 1 near Humphrey Road near Kinleith shortly before 11.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>One person was found dead at the scene, while a second was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The road is closed while the serious crash unit carried out an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>NZTA said northbound traffic should turn left onto State Highway 30 and continue until turning right onto State Highway 32. Turn back onto State Highway 1. <\/p>\n<p>Southbound traffic should do the reverse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person died and a second was seriously injured in a crash north of Taup\u014d late last night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1081,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-390985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390985","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=390985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}