{"id":16883,"date":"2026-03-09T04:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16883"},"modified":"2026-03-09T04:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:20:18","slug":"five-die-during-treacherous-weekend-on-north-island-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16883","title":{"rendered":"Five die during treacherous weekend on North Island roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person has died after a crash on State Highway 1, just north of T\u016brangi, near Rawhira Road.<\/p>\n<p>The road remained closed and diversions were in place around the western side of Lake Taup\u014d.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists were advised to continue avoiding the area.<\/p>\n<p>The past 24 hours have been treacherous on the roads, with four other people dead in separate crashes.<\/p>\n<p>One was killed on Coast Road in Karitane on Sunday morning and a motorcyclist died in a crash on Foxton Shannon Road in the Manawat\u016b soon after.<\/p>\n<p>At about 12.30am, an occupant was killed in a single-vehicle crash at Paparoa.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday afternoon, police also confirmed the driver of a vehicle involved a Dome Valley crash on Saturday evening died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One person has died after a crash on State Highway 1, just north of T\u016brangi, near Rawhira Road. The road remained closed and diversions were in place around the western side of Lake Taup\u014d. Motorists were advised to continue avoiding the area. The past 24 hours have been treacherous on the roads, with four other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16883","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\/16883","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=16883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16885,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16883\/revisions\/16885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}