{"id":13419,"date":"2025-04-30T05:58:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13419"},"modified":"2025-04-30T05:58:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:58:17","slug":"driver-dies-at-scene-of-single-car-crash-in-waikato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13419","title":{"rendered":"Driver dies at scene of single-car crash in Waikato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say the driver of a car that hit a power pole in Waikato has died.<\/p>\n<p>They were called to the single-vehicle crash, south of Te Kowhai near Hamilton, at 4.40pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Police initially said the driver suffered critical injuries and in a later statement said they had died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The Serious Crash Unit has been advised and contractors were on site for the power pole.<\/p>\n<p>Horotiu Road south of Te Kowhai remained closed at 8.30pm and traffic was being diverted at Woolrich Road.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police say the driver of a car that hit a power pole in Waikato has died. They were called to the single-vehicle crash, south of Te Kowhai near Hamilton, at 4.40pm on Tuesday. Police initially said the driver suffered critical injuries and in a later statement said they had died at the scene. The Serious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13419","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\/13419","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=13419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13421,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13419\/revisions\/13421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}