{"id":621508,"date":"2026-10-05T18:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T18:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621508\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T18:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T18:12:12","slug":"tauranga-motorcycle-crash-rider-dies-at-scene-on-takitimu-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/621508\/","title":{"rendered":"Tauranga motorcycle crash: Rider dies at scene on Takitimu Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  alt=\" Emergency services at the scene of the crash on Takitimu Drive. Photo \/ Zoe Blake\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/> Emergency services at the scene of the crash on Takitimu Drive. Photo \/ Zoe Blake<\/p>\n<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency New Zealand northern communications shift manager Paul Radden said a Tauranga crew also attended and assisted police and ambulance staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\">The road was closed for about two hours while the Serious Crash Unit conducted a scene examination and emergency services worked at the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\">Police said Takitimu Dr reopened at 1.20pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\">Inquiries into the circumstances of the crash are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services at the scene of the crash on Takitimu Drive. Photo \/ Zoe Blake Fire and Emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1975,3549,6179,7126,4480,5504,42,28369,43,90,4056,1071,1439,92203,1227,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-621508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-at","tag-crash","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-drive","tag-following","tag-headlines","tag-motorcycle","tag-news","tag-on","tag-person","tag-rider","tag-scene","tag-takitimu","tag-tauranga","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621508","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=621508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}