{"id":86171,"date":"2025-10-18T10:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/86171\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T10:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:37:09","slug":"man-dies-in-hospital-following-crash-in-ngaruawahia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/86171\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies in hospital following crash in Ng\u0101ruaw\u0101hia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4KIAZZ7_WaikatoHospitalambulance_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"698\" alt=\"Waikato Hospital\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThe motorcycle rider later died in Waikato Hospital.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied\/ Waikato Hospital\n<\/p>\n<p>A man has died from injuries sustained in a serious crash earlier this month in Ng\u0101ruaw\u0101hia.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to the crash between a car and a motorcycle on River Road about 7am, 1 October.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said the rider was taken to Waikato Hospital with critical injuries, where he died last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Police have named the dead man as 59-year-old Ng\u0101ruaw\u0101hia man Craig Read.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts remain with his family and loved ones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances of the crash remain under investigation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The motorcycle rider later died in Waikato Hospital. Photo: Supplied\/ Waikato Hospital A man has died from injuries&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-86171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86171","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=86171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}