{"id":144949,"date":"2025-11-20T16:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/144949\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T16:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:15:14","slug":"swiss-man-charged-after-fatal-crash-in-north-canterbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/144949\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss man charged after fatal crash in North Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4KSX2O8_Kumara_SH73_scaled_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"544\" alt=\"The State Highway 73 speed limit boards at the eastern approach to the West Coast town of Kumara (Kohimara). A proposal to lower much of State highway 73 speed limit from the current 100km\/h to 80km\/h on the route from the Coast through Arthur's Pass to Canterbury has been strongly opposed by the West Coast authorities.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nState Highway 73 (File photo)<br \/>\nPhoto: Brendon McMahon\n<\/p>\n<p>A 32-year-old Swiss national has been charged with careless driving causing death after a fatal crash near Sheffield in Canterbury&#8217;s Selwyn district on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The person <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/579386\/person-dies-in-crash-on-state-highway-73-in-canterbury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died in the crash that closed part of State Highway 73<\/a>, shortly before 3pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The two-vehicle crash occurred at the intersection with Deans Road.<\/p>\n<p>St John said another two people were taken to Christchurch Hospital with moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The highway between Bulls and Auchenflower Roads was shut for a few hours as the Serious Crash Unit investigated.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the arrested man was due to appear in the Christchurch District Court today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State Highway 73 (File photo) Photo: Brendon McMahon A 32-year-old Swiss national has been charged with careless driving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-144949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}