{"id":601409,"date":"2026-09-15T21:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T21:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/601409\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T21:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T21:06:11","slug":"state-highway-29-near-karapiro-closed-after-truck-and-car-crash-kills-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/601409\/","title":{"rendered":"State Highway 29 near Karapiro closed after truck and car crash kills two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"DsYfyjGuqRwC\" style=\"display:none\">Three fire crews had been called to the crash, arriving at 6.20am, Fire and Emergency northern shift manager Josh Pennefather said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"DsYfyjGuqRwC\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John was called at 5.58am, a spokesman said. Further inquiries were directed to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DsYfyjGuqRwC\" style=\"display:none\">The Serious Crash Unit and other emergency services are working at the scene to understand the circumstances of the crash, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"DsYfyjGuqRwC\" style=\"display:none\">More to come &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three fire crews had been called to the crash, arriving at 6.20am, Fire and Emergency northern shift manager&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26439,74,95,3944,5201,3549,15979,6179,305,26755,296406,89404,3180,111,43,139,69,384,13672,23857,1237,1524],"class_list":["post-601409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-26439","tag-after","tag-and","tag-car","tag-closed","tag-crash","tag-crashed","tag-died","tag-have","tag-highway","tag-karapiro","tag-kills","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-people","tag-state","tag-truck","tag-two","tag-waikato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601409","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=601409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}