{"id":626369,"date":"2026-10-10T12:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T12:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626369\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T12:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T12:24:09","slug":"one-dead-another-injured-following-crash-on-te-puke-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626369\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead, another injured following crash on Te Puke Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A person has died and another has been injured following a crash on Te Puke Highway this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Emergency services were called to the scene near the corner of Rangiuru Rd around 10.50am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;One person was pronounced deceased at the scene,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">A second person was taken to Tauranga Hospital in a serious condition, Hato Hone St John said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">St John responded with one ambulance, one rapid response unit, one operations manager and a helicopter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The road was closed and diversions were in place while police investigated the circumstances behind the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The serious crash unit had been advised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Motorists were encouraged to avoid the area if possible and expect delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person has died and another has been injured following a crash on Te Puke Highway this morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1081,111,43,139,69,1756],"class_list":["post-626369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-accident","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626369","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=626369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}