{"id":13582,"date":"2025-05-15T17:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T05:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13582"},"modified":"2025-05-15T17:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T05:45:08","slug":"woman-killed-as-vehicle-hits-her-and-power-pole-in-hamilton-homicide-probe-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13582","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed as vehicle hits her and power pole in Hamilton, homicide probe launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Hamilton have launched a homicide investigation the death of a 30-year-old woman on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>She had been on the corner of Ohaupo Road and Kahikatea Drive when a vehicle drove into the power pole she had been standing next to.<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating the circumstances of what happened.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--hD6PQOHU--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1747276095\/4K7D2H0_Selected_photo_1_jpg?_a=BACCd2AD\" alt=\"Police in Hamilton have launched a homicide investigation the death of a 30-year-old woman on Thursday morning.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Libby Kirkby-McLeod<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Specialists and investigators are at the scene and diversions are in place.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the road is expected to remain closed for some time.<\/p>\n<p>A worker at the Herbal Shop and Clinic opposite the intersection said police had been at the scene all day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we saw it happen around 9:30am, you don&#8217;t know what is going on to start with, but it&#8217;s been a long time, the whole day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said a lot of people helped after the woman was hit.<\/p>\n<p>VIA RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Hamilton have launched a homicide investigation the death of a 30-year-old woman on Thursday morning. She had been on the corner of Ohaupo Road and Kahikatea Drive when a vehicle drove into the power pole she had been standing next to. Police are investigating the circumstances of what happened. Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Libby Kirkby-McLeod [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,208,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-lifestyle","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13582","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=13582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13584,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13582\/revisions\/13584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}