{"id":495637,"date":"2026-06-25T23:16:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/495637\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T23:16:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T23:16:36","slug":"pedestrian-dies-in-waikato-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/495637\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies in Waikato crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pedestrian has been killed in a crash involving a vehicle south-west of Hamilton this morning.<\/p>\n<p>State Highway 39\/Kakaramea Road south of Whatawhata is closed following the crash, which occurred between Koromatua Road and Higgison Road around 6.40am.<\/p>\n<p>In an update after 10.30pm, police said the pedestrian had died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Motorists are advised to avoid the area.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian has been killed in a crash involving a vehicle south-west of Hamilton this morning. State Highway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9001,42,43,40,38,41,39,112],"class_list":["post-495637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-hamilton-waikato","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495637","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=495637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}