{"id":570441,"date":"2026-08-16T04:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T04:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/570441\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T04:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T04:36:12","slug":"person-found-dead-in-burning-car-in-waikato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/570441\/","title":{"rendered":"Person found dead in burning car in Waikato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A person has been found dead inside a burning car on a rural Waitomo road, with police treating the death as unexplained. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Emergency services were alerted around 6am to a car on fire on Mokauiti Rd in Aria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Fire and Emergency NZ responded to the blaze and, on arrival, located a person deceased inside the vehicle before notifying police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Duty inspector Karl Thornton said police remained on scene and were working to establish what had occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;At this stage the death is being treated as unexplained,&#8221; Thornton said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Cordons are in place on Mokauiti Rd, between Waitahi Rd and Oniao Rd, and the public is asked to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Fire and Emergency sent one unit from Pupu to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">St John did not attend the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person has been found dead inside a burning car on a rural Waitomo road, with police treating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,9001,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-570441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-hamilton-waikato","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570441","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=570441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}