{"id":404271,"date":"2026-04-30T03:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/404271\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T03:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:05:14","slug":"fatal-rotorua-bus-crash-car-passenger-charged-over-te-ngae-rd-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/404271\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Rotorua bus crash: Car passenger charged over Te Ngae Rd collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">A further 26 patients in \u201cminor condition\u201d were assessed and did not require transport, a St John spokesperson said at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Police said a 26\u2011year\u2011old woman who was a passenger in the car has been charged with being party to dangerous driving causing death, party to four counts of dangerous driving causing injury, and perverting the course of justice. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">The woman appeared in the Rotorua District Court today where she was granted interim name suppression and remanded on bail to reappear before a registrar in Rotorua on May 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">The investigation into the crash is ongoing, with inquiries continuing with the driver of the car, who sustained serious injuries in the collision. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A further 26 patients in \u201cminor condition\u201d were assessed and did not require transport, a St John spokesperson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30482,3944,13239,34094,3549,11784,42,43,138681,1523,14734,2642,1327,8690,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-404271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bus","tag-car","tag-charged","tag-collision","tag-crash","tag-fatal","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-ngae","tag-over","tag-passenger","tag-rd","tag-rotorua","tag-te","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404271","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=404271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}