{"id":11656,"date":"2024-10-11T05:45:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T16:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11656"},"modified":"2024-10-11T05:45:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T16:45:11","slug":"police-find-body-six-days-after-car-crashes-into-bay-of-plenty-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11656","title":{"rendered":"Police find body six days after car crashes into Bay of Plenty river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have located the body of a person who died after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/529842\/person-missing-after-vehicle-plunges-down-bank-in-bay-of-plenty\">crashing into a Bay of Plenty river last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A vehicle left State Highway 2 and went down a bank into \u014cp\u014dtiki&#8217;s Waioeka River, around 2.5km south of the Tauranga Bridge, on 4 October.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Search and rescue teams, including a boat, helicopter and Coastguard jet skis conducted sweeps of the river and riverbank on Friday,&#8221; senior sergeant Richard Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, the person and vehicle were unable to be located.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police and rescue teams had been on standby ever since, &#8220;ready to respond once the river conditions were right to safely deploy a team to the area&#8221;, Miller said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, the river conditions had cleared sufficiently and Police along with search and rescue teams, local jet boat operators, and the Police National Dive Squad responded, searching the river.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The vehicle was located at about 12:05pm, around 400 metres from the original crash site.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The victim was located deceased inside the vehicle and has since been successfully recovered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police were pleased they had been able to reunite wh\u0101nau with their loved one, Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>Inquiries into the circumstances of the crash were ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have located the body of a person who died after\u00a0crashing into a Bay of Plenty river last week. A vehicle left State Highway 2 and went down a bank into \u014cp\u014dtiki&#8217;s Waioeka River, around 2.5km south of the Tauranga Bridge, on 4 October. &#8220;Search and rescue teams, including a boat, helicopter and Coastguard jet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11656","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=11656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11658,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11656\/revisions\/11658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}