{"id":534721,"date":"2026-07-20T06:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/534721\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T06:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:31:08","slug":"sean-raymond-bridgeman-killed-in-single-vehicle-crash-on-troutbeck-rd-galatea-bay-of-plenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/534721\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Raymond Bridgeman killed in single-vehicle crash on Troutbeck Rd, Galatea, Bay of Plenty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lRosKcBdZHd\" style=\"display:none\">Tributes were flowing for Bridgeman and his family on his online funeral notice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lRosKcBdZHd\" style=\"display:none\">He was described as a \u201cgood kid from an amazing, kind and caring wh\u0101nau\u201d who had a kind smile and was fun-loving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lRosKcBdZHd\" style=\"display:none\">His funeral service is set to be held in Galatea tomorrow. <\/p>\n<p class=\"lRosKcBdZHd\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/kelly-makiha\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Makiha<\/a> is a senior journalist who has reported for the Rotorua Daily Post for more than 25 years, covering mainly police, court, human interest and social issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tributes were flowing for Bridgeman and his family on his online funeral notice. He was described as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1561,263696,3549,6179,119725,78,3375,60502,3180,111,43,139,69,1118,90,1562,2642,1330,3546,78117,263697],"class_list":["post-534721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-bay","tag-bridgeman","tag-crash","tag-died","tag-galatea","tag-in","tag-killed","tag-murupara","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-on","tag-plenty","tag-rd","tag-raymond","tag-sean","tag-singlevehicle","tag-troutbeck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534721","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=534721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}