{"id":85741,"date":"2025-10-18T05:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T05:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/85741\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T05:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T05:10:08","slug":"police-name-motorcyclist-craig-read-after-fatal-ngaruawahia-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/85741\/","title":{"rendered":"Police name motorcyclist Craig Read after fatal Ng\u0101ruaw\u0101hia crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>18 Oct, 2025 03:39 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A man has died following a crash between a car and a motorcycle on October 1. Photo \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A motorcyclist has died in hospital after a Ng\u0101ruaw\u0101hia crash earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said on Saturday that 59-year-old Ng\u0101ruaw\u0101hia man, Craig Read, died from the injuries he sustained in a serious crash on October 1<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police said emergency services were called to the crash, between a car and a<br \/>\n         motorcycle, on River Rd at 7am that day.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"iNwUpnfLcxPBLSL\" style=\"display:none\">Read was taken to Waikato Hospital with critical injuries, where he died last weekend, police said today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 18 Oct, 2025 03:39 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,6650,3549,6179,3602,11784,2241,4486,33260,13617,111,43,139,65185,69,675,15403,1961],"class_list":["post-85741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-craig","tag-crash","tag-died","tag-earlier","tag-fatal","tag-hospital","tag-month","tag-motorcyclist","tag-name","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-ngruawhia","tag-nz","tag-police","tag-read","tag-this"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85741","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=85741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}