{"id":15347,"date":"2025-10-16T05:23:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15347"},"modified":"2025-10-16T05:23:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:23:36","slug":"two-dead-three-injured-after-waikato-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15347","title":{"rendered":"Two dead, three injured after Waikato car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have died and three others are seriously injured, after a car crash in Waikato.<\/p>\n<p>Police say two vehicles collided near the intersection of State Highway 1 and Horahora Road at Piarere, near Tirau.<\/p>\n<p>Two people have died and the Serious Crash Unit is at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Hato Hone St John says two others are critically injured and a third is in a serious condition.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve been taken to Waikato Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Significant diversions are in place, via State Highways 29 and 27.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have died and three others are seriously injured, after a car crash in Waikato. Police say two vehicles collided near the intersection of State Highway 1 and Horahora Road at Piarere, near Tirau. Two people have died and the Serious Crash Unit is at the scene. Hato Hone St John says two others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15347","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\/15347","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=15347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15349,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15347\/revisions\/15349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}