{"id":441141,"date":"2026-05-23T05:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/441141\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T05:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:20:17","slug":"person-dead-state-highway-25-near-waitakaruru-closed-after-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/441141\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dead, State Highway 25 near Waitakaruru closed after crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>23 May, 2026 02:14 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 class=\"\">One person has died after a serious single-vehicle crash this morning that closed State Highway 25 at Waitakaruru in Waikato. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were called to the crash between Canal East Rd and Pouarua Rd North shortly before 11am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         A police spokesperson said the sole occupant died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nAzlsRkyMsZOvyL\" style=\"display:none\">Motorists are being advised to avoid the area and expect delays while the road remains closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 23 May, 2026 02:14 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17311,74,5201,3549,690,6179,26755,1304,3180,111,43,139,69,4056,1238,78117,13672,1361,1961,1524,91526],"class_list":["post-441141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-17311","tag-after","tag-closed","tag-crash","tag-dead","tag-died","tag-highway","tag-morning","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-serious","tag-singlevehicle","tag-state","tag-that","tag-this","tag-waikato","tag-waitakaruru"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441141","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=441141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}