{"id":576549,"date":"2026-08-22T04:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576549\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T04:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:44:10","slug":"two-dead-after-separate-north-island-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576549\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead after separate North island crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have died overnight in separate car crashes.<\/p>\n<p>Police found one person dead last night in Maungakaramea after responding to a single-vehicle crash.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities were called to the intersection of Maungakaramea Road and Jobe Road at 5.20pm on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Another person died in Tauranga on Cameron Road on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the sole occupant of the vehicle was found dead at the scene after they were called to the incident just after 5.40am.<\/p>\n<p>FENZ reported the vehicle collided with a tree.<\/p>\n<p>Maungakaramea and Jobe Roads have since reopened, but police report enquiries into the crash remain ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron Road in Tauranga remains closed between 15th and 17th Ave as officers carry out a scene examination.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists have been advised to avoid the area and to expect delays if driving through the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have died overnight in separate car crashes. Police found one person dead last night in Maungakaramea&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,42,43,1067,1756,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-576549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-northland","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576549","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=576549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}