A rural road will remain closed overnight as police investigate a sudden death in Blenheim this afternoon.<\/p>\n
Wairau Bar Rd on the outskirts of Blenheim was first closed between Ferry Rd and Dicks Rd earlier this afternoon while police responded to an incident.<\/p>\n
Marlborough Area Commander Inspector Simon Feltham later confirmed officers were “investigating a sudden death” after being called to the road just before 1.30pm.<\/p>\n
“The road remains closed, with a scene guard to remain in place overnight,” Feltham said.<\/p>\n
“A scene examination is due to be carried out tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n
“We continue to advise people to avoid the area.”<\/p>\n
Police said earlier there was “not believed to be any risk to public safety”.<\/p>\n
Wairau Bar Rd leads to the Wairau Bar, also known as Te Pokohiwi, a gravel bar at the mouth of the Wairau River in Cloudy Bay. The site is one of the earliest known human settlements in New Zealand, dating back to about 1280.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rural road will remain closed overnight as police investigate a sudden death in Blenheim this afternoon. Wairau…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,16256,43,40,38,41,39,112],"class_list":["post-434931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-marlborough","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434931","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=434931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}