{"id":479740,"date":"2026-06-16T07:58:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479740\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T07:58:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:58:05","slug":"taupo-pamela-alexander-second-victim-of-te-heuheu-st-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479740\/","title":{"rendered":"Taup\u014d: Pamela Alexander second victim of Te Heuheu St fatal crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">She was described as a dearly loved wife, mother, mother-in-law, grandma and great-grandmother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">A service would be held at The Founders Chapel of Remembrance in Taup\u014d this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Police previously said Auckland man John Preston, 65, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/rotorua-daily-post\/news\/witness-appeal-after-fatal-taupo-crash-claims-life-of-auckland-man\/LEXN6WWNN5CJHPYFUUJICGORQM\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/rotorua-daily-post\/news\/witness-appeal-after-fatal-taupo-crash-claims-life-of-auckland-man\/LEXN6WWNN5CJHPYFUUJICGORQM\/\">died at the scene.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EoZyGajGNiPxVf\" style=\"display:none\">Stuff reported he was the general manager of ACT Safety and was a respected and experienced health and safety professional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She was described as a dearly loved wife, mother, mother-in-law, grandma and great-grandmother. A service would be held&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,34855,1853,3549,6179,11784,34537,111,43,139,69,1118,180599,4056,8466,11420,1852,8690,1337,4518],"class_list":["post-479740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-alexander","tag-central","tag-crash","tag-died","tag-fatal","tag-heuheu","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-pamela","tag-person","tag-second","tag-st","tag-taup","tag-te","tag-victim","tag-weeks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479740","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=479740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}