{"id":458313,"date":"2026-06-03T05:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/458313\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T05:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:32:07","slug":"witness-appeal-after-fatal-taupo-crash-claims-life-of-auckland-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/458313\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness appeal after fatal Taup\u014d crash claims life of Auckland man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rotorua Daily Post<\/p>\n<p>3 Jun, 2026 04:04 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\">Police were called to the crash about 6.30pm on May 29. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police have released the name of an Auckland man who died in a crash in central Taup\u014d late last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He was John Preston, 65, of Manukau, who died after a collision on Te Heuheu St on Friday, May 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Emergency services were called to the crash, near the Ruapehu<br \/>\n         St roundabout, just before 6.30pm. Preston died at the scene and two others were critically injured.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Police are appealing for witnesses, including anyone who saw the crash or the manner of driving of the vehicles involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe\u2019re also appealing to anyone with dashcam footage or business owners along Te Heuheu St to review their CCTV footage,\u201d a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rotorua Daily Post 3 Jun, 2026 04:04 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,6375,51,1853,2562,3549,6179,11784,305,42,685,4507,424,5158,4486,13617,43,1118,675,13181,1852,40,38,41,39,3603],"class_list":["post-458313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-appeal","tag-auckland","tag-central","tag-claims","tag-crash","tag-died","tag-fatal","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-last","tag-late","tag-life","tag-man","tag-month","tag-name","tag-news","tag-of","tag-police","tag-released","tag-taup","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-witness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458313","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=458313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}