{"id":590385,"date":"2026-09-04T22:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T22:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/590385\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T22:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T22:10:13","slug":"one-dead-after-crash-north-of-hamilton-in-huntly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/590385\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after crash north of Hamilton in Huntly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a307a44a-0978-4746-85bf-b12fc042eeba.png\" alt=\"Ben Leahy\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/ben-leahy\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Leahy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reporter\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>4 Sep, 2026 08:40 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Serious crash investigators are still making inquiries into a fatal crash in Huntly, police say. Photo \/ Dean Purcell<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A person died in a car crash north of Hamilton overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The single-vehicle crash happened on Semple St, Huntly at 12.40am today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cSadly, the driver died at the scene,\u201d a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Serious Crash Unit has examined the scene and is  still investigating, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Leahy Reporter\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7 4 Sep, 2026 08:40 PMQuick Read \u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,3549,690,6179,6288,6655,78,111,43,139,529,69,1118,5270,6507,4056],"class_list":["post-590385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-crash","tag-dead","tag-died","tag-hamilton","tag-huntly","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-one","tag-overnight","tag-person"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590385","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=590385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}