{"id":454607,"date":"2026-05-31T22:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/454607\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T22:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:43:09","slug":"two-dead-in-separate-overnight-crashes-one-on-waiheke-island-the-other-in-wairakei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/454607\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead in separate overnight crashes, one on Waiheke Island, the other in Wair\u0101kei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\"Police were called to the fatal crash on Onetangi Rd around 1.30am. Photo \/ Google Maps\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police were called to the fatal crash on Onetangi Rd around 1.30am. Photo \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Yesterday evening, one person died following a crash in Wair\u0101kei, where a car hit a tree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Police were alerted to the single vehicle crash on Poihipi Rd at 7.25pm, a spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">The driver was the sole occupant of the car..<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">The Serious Crash Unit examined both crash scenes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Inquiries surrounding the circumstances of the Waiheke crash are being investigated while the death of the Wair\u0101kei driver will be referred to the coroner, the spokesperson said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police were called to the fatal crash on Onetangi Rd around 1.30am. Photo \/ Google Maps Yesterday evening,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,28649,29422,690,6179,305,78,2514,111,43,139,69,90,5270,193,6507,384,23897,10112,51519,223,15981,1237,6845,70252,231283,540,102],"class_list":["post-454607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-collided","tag-crashes","tag-dead","tag-died","tag-have","tag-in","tag-island","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-one","tag-other","tag-overnight","tag-people","tag-pole","tag-power","tag-separate","tag-the","tag-tree","tag-two","tag-vehicle","tag-waiheke","tag-wairkei","tag-where","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454607","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=454607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}