{"id":394131,"date":"2026-04-23T18:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/394131\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T18:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:22:17","slug":"sunlive-fatal-sh29-crash-forces-school-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/394131\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Fatal SH29 crash forces school closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person has died after a truck and a car collided on State Highway 29 in the Kaimai Range.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called around 5.50am to the two-vehicle crash near the intersection with Valley View Rd.<\/p>\n<p>Police said one person was found dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>SH29 was closed while the serious crash unit examined the scene but has since reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency northern shift manager Paul Radden earlier said a car and a truck had crashed and two fire crews, from Greerton and Tauranga City, were attending.<\/p>\n<p>Kaimai School closed because of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on its Facebook page, the school said: \u201cUnfortunately due to the closure of SH 29, we\u2019ve had to close the school today as staff are not being allowed through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApologies for any inconvenience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has died after a truck and a car collided on State Highway 29 in the Kaimai&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-394131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/394131","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=394131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}