{"id":11182,"date":"2024-08-29T05:31:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T17:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11182"},"modified":"2024-08-29T05:31:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T17:31:13","slug":"widow-of-auckland-horror-crash-victim-was-meant-to-be-in-van","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11182","title":{"rendered":"Widow of Auckland horror crash victim was meant to be in van"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/526383\/sh1-horror-crash-leaves-six-children-in-one-family-fatherless\">wife of the driver killed in a horror crash<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/526244\/sh1-in-auckland-reopens-after-crash-kills-three\">State Highway 1 in Auckland&#8217;s Ramarama<\/a>\u00a0on Monday says she was supposed to be in the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/526287\/tyre-blowout-sent-truck-through-barrier-in-triple-fatal-crash-on-sh1\">blown tyre caused a truck to crash through a road barrier into oncoming traffic<\/a>, hitting the van Uili Fa&#8217;aofo was driving.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/526353\/victims-of-south-auckland-state-highway-1-truck-crash-identified-as-family-members-fa-aofo-uili-fa-aofo-leauga-jerry-leauga-ta-avao-kelemete\">killed him, his two nephews<\/a>, and severely injured three other passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Uili Fa&#8217;aofo is survived by his wife, Nu&#8217;ulua Fa&#8217;aofo, and their six children.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to RNZ Pacific on Wednesday, Nu&#8217;ulua Fa&#8217;aofo said she was meant to accompany her husband on the trip that morning, but he told her to stay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to go too, and he said, &#8216;no, you stay. You be strong. Look after the kids, and then I will call by myself&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said her husband was a loving, hardworking father and uncle who cared for his family a lot.<\/p>\n<p>She had no idea what was going on in the news or on social media about the crash until police officers knocked on her door after 5pm on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0wife of the driver killed in a horror crash\u00a0on\u00a0State Highway 1 in Auckland&#8217;s Ramarama\u00a0on Monday says she was supposed to be in the vehicle. Police said a\u00a0blown tyre caused a truck to crash through a road barrier into oncoming traffic, hitting the van Uili Fa&#8217;aofo was driving. It\u00a0killed him, his two nephews, and severely injured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11184,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11182\/revisions\/11184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}