{"id":394574,"date":"2026-04-24T00:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/394574\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:25:11","slug":"body-found-in-burned-out-car-on-kapiti-coast-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/394574\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in burned-out car on K\u0101piti Coast beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/K3OBIPQKQZDOZIOUPMWGQUCZWU.png\" alt=\"Janhavi Gosavi\" 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 class=\"\">Police are investigating after a body was found in a burned-out car at a beach near Wellington overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police were called to the fire about 12.45am on the beach near Peka Peka Rd in the K\u0101piti Coast. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> Emergency services found a body inside the car. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cInquiries are<br \/>\n         now underway to establish the full circumstances of what has occurred,\u201d acting Detective Sergeant Thomas Minney said.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cA scene guard has been in place overnight, and a scene examination is due to take place today.\u201c<\/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":394575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,7972,7800,203867,3944,11586,1874,42,78,17709,60832,3180,43,90,6507,675,40,38,41,39,52],"class_list":["post-394574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-beach","tag-body","tag-burnedout","tag-car","tag-coast","tag-found","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-investigating","tag-kpiti","tag-near","tag-news","tag-on","tag-overnight","tag-police","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394574","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=394574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}