{"id":426088,"date":"2026-05-13T19:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/426088\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:37:10","slug":"te-puke-highway-crash-one-dead-and-two-seriously-injured-in-two-car-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/426088\/","title":{"rendered":"Te Puke Highway crash: One dead and two seriously injured in two-car collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">Emergency services were at the scene for much of the evening, with diversions in place via Pacific Coast Highway at Poplar Lane and Welcome Bay Rd, as well as at Bell Rd on Te Puke Highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\">Motorists were urged to avoid the area, take alternative  routes and delay travel if possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"JtBQMqmXyJmFvekYOB\" style=\"display:none\"><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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" 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\" 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":"Emergency services were at the scene for much of the evening, with diversions in place via Pacific Coast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,95,5201,34094,3549,690,6179,42,26755,78,10933,685,43,2551,5270,2682,4056,1562,46601,23419,8690,1361,40,38,41,39,1237,27050],"class_list":["post-426088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-and","tag-closed","tag-collision","tag-crash","tag-dead","tag-died","tag-headlines","tag-highway","tag-in","tag-injured","tag-last","tag-news","tag-night","tag-one","tag-others","tag-person","tag-plenty","tag-puke","tag-seriously","tag-te","tag-that","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-two","tag-twocar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426088","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=426088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}