{"id":569502,"date":"2026-08-15T04:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T04:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/569502\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T04:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T04:38:10","slug":"two-dead-in-crash-between-car-and-motorcycle-in-owhata-rotorua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/569502\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead in crash between car and motorcycle in \u014cwhata, Rotorua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\" Intersection of Te Ngae Rd and Rotokawa Rd in Rotorua.  Photo \/ Ben Fraser\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/> Intersection of Te Ngae Rd and Rotokawa Rd in Rotorua.  Photo \/ Ben Fraser<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">It reopened about 5.40am today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Police said inquiries into the circumstances of the crash were ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John said it was notified of the incident at 9.41pm and sent one ambulance and a rapid response unit to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">Crews assessed and treated one patient, who was transported to Rotorua Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bcxzNmxesLZ\" style=\"display:none\">St John referred further questions about the incident to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Intersection of Te Ngae Rd and Rotokawa Rd in Rotorua. Photo \/ Ben Fraser It reopened about 5.40am&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,95,5432,3944,3549,15979,690,6179,305,42,78,28369,43,384,1327,40,38,41,39,1237,190832],"class_list":["post-569502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-and","tag-between","tag-car","tag-crash","tag-crashed","tag-dead","tag-died","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-motorcycle","tag-news","tag-people","tag-rotorua","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-two","tag-whata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569502","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=569502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}