{"id":627787,"date":"2026-10-12T00:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T00:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/627787\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T00:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T00:28:08","slug":"motorcyclist-and-passenger-die-in-crash-with-vehicle-near-matamata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/627787\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist and passenger die in crash with vehicle near Matamata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people riding a motorcycle have died following a collision involving a vehicle near Matamata in Waikato last night.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the crash near the corner of State Highway 29 and Pond Rd at about 8pm. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The motorcyclist and their passenger were pronounced dead at the scene, and another person was transported to hospital in a moderate condition,&#8221; a police spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p>The serious crash unit has been advised. <\/p>\n<p>Inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the crash were ongoing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including a man\u2019s killed by a tiger at the UK zoo, and Trump\u2019s plan to rename the Pacific. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people riding a motorcycle have died following a collision involving a vehicle near Matamata in Waikato last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,9001,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-627787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-hamilton-waikato","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627787","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=627787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}