{"id":433396,"date":"2026-05-18T13:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/433396\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:15:10","slug":"one-dead-after-three-vehicle-crash-on-waikato-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/433396\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after three vehicle crash on Waikato Expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4K47N62_0Z9A8963_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"A police car parked across the road at the scene of a triple fatality in Waiuku, in July 2025.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nFile photo.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ\/ Marika Khabazi\n<\/p>\n<p>One person has died and two others are injured after a three-vehicle crash on the Waikato Expressway.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the crash happened at P\u014dkeno shortly before 7pm.<\/p>\n<p>One person died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Two other people were injured in the crash &#8211; one with critical injuries and one with moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the Waikato Expressway was closed southbound between Great South Road and Pioneer Road, and motorists have been advised to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File photo. Photo: RNZ\/ Marika Khabazi One person has died and two others are injured after a three-vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-433396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433396","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=433396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}