{"id":434554,"date":"2026-05-19T06:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/434554\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T06:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:12:08","slug":"police-investigate-sudden-death-in-blenheim-as-wairau-bar-rd-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/434554\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate \u2018sudden death\u2019 in Blenheim as Wairau Bar Rd closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>19 May, 2026 03:53 AMQuick Read<\/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 data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Wairau Bar Rd between Ferry Rd and Dicks Rd is closed. Image \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police are investigating a sudden death in Blenheim, with a stretch of road on the edge of the town closed overnight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Marlborough area commander Inspector Simon Feltham said an investigation is underway at Wairau Bar Rd, Blenheim, after a \u201csudden death\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Feltham said police were called just before 1.30pm,<br \/>\n         with Wairau Bar Rd closed between Ferry Rd and Dicks Rd.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe road remains closed, with a scene guard to remain in place overnight,\u201d Feltham said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cA scene examination is due to be carried out tomorrow morning. We continue to advise people to avoid the area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 19 May, 2026 03:53 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[806,17181,17184,5201,634,11746,78,676,17709,111,43,139,69,6507,675,2642,1314,11584,24994,2951,222406,102],"class_list":["post-434554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-as","tag-bar","tag-blenheim","tag-closed","tag-death","tag-edge","tag-in","tag-investigate","tag-investigating","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-overnight","tag-police","tag-rd","tag-road","tag-stretch","tag-sudden","tag-town","tag-wairau","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434554","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=434554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}