{"id":570307,"date":"2026-08-16T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T01:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/570307\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T01:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T01:00:10","slug":"motorcycle-rider-and-passenger-killed-in-rotorua-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/570307\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle rider and passenger killed in Rotorua crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have died and one person has been injured in a crash between a car and a motorcycle in Rotorua last night.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the scene near the intersection of Te Ngae Rd and Rotokawa Rd, next to Rotorua Airport, at about 9.40pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sadly, the motorcycle\u2019s driver and passenger were located deceased at the scene,&#8221; a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The road was closed while the serious crash unit carried out a scene examination, and it reopened about 5.40am today.<\/p>\n<p>St John responded at 9.41pm with one ambulance and one rapid response unit. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One patient in a moderate condition had been transported to Rotorua Hospital,&#8221; a St John spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Inquiries into the circumstances of the crash are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have died and one person has been injured in a crash between a car and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,1756],"class_list":["post-570307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570307","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=570307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}