{"id":624191,"date":"2026-10-08T08:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T08:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624191\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T08:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T08:38:11","slug":"queenstown-crash-victim-sandesh-singh-had-moved-to-new-zealand-six-months-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624191\/","title":{"rendered":"Queenstown crash victim Sandesh Singh had moved to New Zealand six months ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

The friend is raising money to return Singh\u2019s body to India so his family can perform his final rites \u201csurrounded by loved ones\u201d.<\/p>\n

Singh died in the early hours of Sunday after the vehicle he was travelling in crashed near Kawarau Falls<\/a>.<\/p>\n

No other vehicles were involved in the crash on State Highway 6, between Peninsula Rd and Boyd Rd, shortly before 4am.<\/p>\n

Three other people were injured, one critically and two seriously, police said at the time.<\/p>\n

\"FireFire and Emergency New Zealand removed multiple people from the crashed vehicle near Queenstown.<\/p>\n

One lane remained open after the crash, although the Serious Crash Unit\u2019s attendance closed part of the road for a time.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur thoughts are with his family as they go through this difficult time,\u201d police said in today\u2019s name release.<\/p>\n

Fire and Emergency New Zealand said multiple people were extricated from the vehicle.<\/p>\n

Inquiries into the crash continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The friend is raising money to return Singh\u2019s body to India so his family can perform his final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,24752,28824,9442,3549,6179,3602,3273,1351,3234,32033,3180,117,111,43,139,69,20930,118364,40249,22498,4739,10809,61,1337,80],"class_list":["post-624191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-ago","tag-arrived","tag-better","tag-crash","tag-died","tag-earlier","tag-future","tag-had","tag-months","tag-moved","tag-near","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-queenstown","tag-sandesh","tag-seeking","tag-singh","tag-six","tag-sunday","tag-to","tag-victim","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624191","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=624191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}