{"id":489714,"date":"2026-06-22T10:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/489714\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:32:12","slug":"one-person-dead-after-opunake-crash-on-sh45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/489714\/","title":{"rendered":"One person dead after \u014cpunake crash on SH45"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">Earlier today,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/police-issue-warning-after-seven-killed-on-roads-over-deadly-weekend\/SU4H6KIV6ZFHPOG7TV72S47L6Y\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/police-issue-warning-after-seven-killed-on-roads-over-deadly-weekend\/SU4H6KIV6ZFHPOG7TV72S47L6Y\/\"> police urged drivers to take extra caution<\/a> after seven deaths from road accidents over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis number is absolutely devastating, and we are thinking of their families as they go through this difficult time,\u201d said director of road policing Superintendent Steve Greally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWear a seatbelt, put the phone down, and do not drive if you are impaired by drugs or alcohol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSignposted speed limits are there for a reason, and we expect every road user to follow them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYZkfFLMYZDtBgBwd\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThese things might be the difference between you getting home safely or not.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier today, police urged drivers to take extra caution after seven deaths from road accidents over the weekend.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,2223,3549,690,6179,305,685,111,43,139,69,90,5270,4056,675,141932,1238,245578,16715,686],"class_list":["post-489714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-confirmed","tag-crash","tag-dead","tag-died","tag-have","tag-last","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-one","tag-person","tag-police","tag-punake","tag-serious","tag-sh45","tag-taranaki","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489714","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=489714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}