{"id":512236,"date":"2026-07-06T10:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/512236\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T10:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T10:49:08","slug":"one-person-dies-after-vehicle-enters-aorere-river-in-tasman-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/512236\/","title":{"rendered":"One person dies after vehicle enters Aorere River in Tasman District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>6 Jul, 2026 09:33 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 rushed to Ferntown Bridge after a car crashed into the Aorere River. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A person has died after a vehicle crashed into a river near Collingwood in the northwest of the South Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police went to Ferntown Bridge on Collingwood-Puponga Main Rd about 4pm after the vehicle entered the Aorere River.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">No other vehicles were involved in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         One person was found<br \/>\n         in a serious condition but died at the scene despite the efforts of emergency services, police said.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 6 Jul, 2026 09:33 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,254813,254814,15979,6179,7126,7557,28167,78,296,2514,3180,111,43,139,44182,69,5270,4056,6739,1240,2224,6845],"class_list":["post-512236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-aorere","tag-collingwood","tag-crashed","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-district","tag-enters","tag-in","tag-into","tag-island","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-northwest","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-person","tag-river","tag-south","tag-tasman","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512236","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=512236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}