{"id":454941,"date":"2026-06-01T04:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/454941\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T04:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:52:08","slug":"two-dead-in-separate-crashes-in-auckland-and-taupo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/454941\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead in separate crashes in Auckland and Taup\u014d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two people have died in separate single-vehicle crashes overnight, bringing the preliminary King’s Birthday holiday road toll to seven.<\/p>\n

Police were alerted to the first fatal crash in Wairakei, just north of Taup\u014d, at 7.25pm last night.<\/p>\n

The sole occupant of the car had collided with a tree on Poihipi Rd.<\/p>\n

“The death will be referred to the coroner,” police said.<\/p>\n

Emergency services were called to the second crash on Waiheke Island at around 1.30am.<\/p>\n

St John responded with one ambulance but said its crews were not required for transportation.<\/p>\n

“Sadly, one person was pronounced deceased at the scene,” police said.<\/p>\n

The serious crash unit examined the scenes of both crashes.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, three people have been killed in a two-vehicle crash on SH1 Desert Rd<\/a> that police were called to at around 2.55am. One person was still unaccounted for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have died in separate single-vehicle crashes overnight, bringing the preliminary King’s Birthday holiday road toll to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,51,9001,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-454941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-auckland","tag-hamilton-waikato","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454941","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=454941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}