{"id":605682,"date":"2026-09-19T22:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/605682\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T22:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:20:10","slug":"matamata-piako-motorbike-crash-one-dead-another-seriously-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/605682\/","title":{"rendered":"Matamata-Piako motorbike crash: One dead, another seriously injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Emergency services were alerted to the single-motorbike crash on the Morrinsville-Tahuna Rd at about 6.45pm Saturday. Image \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One person has died and another is seriously injured after a crash involving a motorbike in the Matamata-Piako district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were alerted to the single-vehicle crash on the Morrinsville-Tahuna Rd; between Paeroa-Tahuna Rd and Quine Rd, at about 6.45pm Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police said one person died at the scene, while<br \/>\n         another rider on the same bike was transported to hospital in a serious condition.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">The Serious Crash Unit carried out a scene examination and the road reopened before midnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services were alerted to the single-motorbike crash on the Morrinsville-Tahuna Rd at about 6.45pm Saturday. Image \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,9526,3549,690,6179,7557,10933,29819,298387,12638,111,43,139,69,5270,4056,23419],"class_list":["post-605682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-another","tag-crash","tag-dead","tag-died","tag-district","tag-injured","tag-involving","tag-matamatapiako","tag-motorbike","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-person","tag-seriously"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605682","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=605682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}