{"id":619866,"date":"2026-10-04T00:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T00:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/619866\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T00:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T00:10:12","slug":"kawarau-falls-crash-one-person-dead-in-single-vehicle-crash-three-others-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/619866\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawarau Falls crash: One person dead in single-vehicle crash, three others hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One person has died, and three others have been injured in a single-vehicle crash at Kawarau Falls, near Queenstown, this morning.<\/p>\n

Emergency services responded to the crash on State Highway 6 between the intersections of Peninsula Rd and Boyd Rd shortly before 4am.<\/p>\n

\n Police said two people in the car
\n had serious injuries; one had critical injuries, while one died at the scene.\n <\/p>\n

One lane was open; however, the Serious Crash Unit\u2019s attendancewas expected to close the road for a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1558,3549,690,6179,15248,305,42,14046,78,10933,305134,1304,3180,43,5270,2682,4056,20930,78117,1961,1529,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-619866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-been","tag-crash","tag-dead","tag-died","tag-falls","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-hurt","tag-in","tag-injured","tag-kawarau","tag-morning","tag-near","tag-news","tag-one","tag-others","tag-person","tag-queenstown","tag-singlevehicle","tag-this","tag-three","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619866","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=619866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}