{"id":420027,"date":"2026-05-09T21:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/420027\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T21:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:46:08","slug":"mangatarata-fatal-crash-person-killed-in-serious-two-car-crash-on-sh2-in-waikato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/420027\/","title":{"rendered":"Mangatarata fatal crash: Person killed in serious two-car crash on SH2 in Waikato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cA second person has reportedly sustained moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe road remains closed while the Serious Crash Unit examines the scene. Motorists should continue to avoid the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Diversions are in place at the intersection of SH2 and SH25 to the north, and SH2 and SH27 to the south. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">A Hato Hone St John spokesperson said an ambulance, one road manager and a helicopter were sent to the crash scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wrLLDwyWye\" style=\"display:none\">Staff assessed one person in a moderate condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cA second person has reportedly sustained moderate injuries. \u201cThe road remains closed while the Serious Crash Unit examines&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3549,690,2245,11784,5504,26755,78,3375,215724,1304,111,43,139,69,90,4056,1238,47621,1961,27050,1524],"class_list":["post-420027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crash","tag-dead","tag-early","tag-fatal","tag-following","tag-highway","tag-in","tag-killed","tag-mangatarata","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-person","tag-serious","tag-sh2","tag-this","tag-twocar","tag-waikato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420027","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=420027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}