{"id":145548,"date":"2025-11-21T00:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/145548\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T00:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:08:07","slug":"police-appeal-after-double-fatal-crash-north-of-timaru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/145548\/","title":{"rendered":"Police appeal after double fatal crash north of Timaru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>20 Nov, 2025 11:17 PMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">The police said that there was a separate crash before the fatal crash, involving other vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police are appealing for information from the public following a double fatal crash north of Timaru on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The accident,  involving a car and a truck, occurred on State Highway 1, near Brosnan Rd, with emergency services called about 5.10pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Two people died at the scene, while another was<br \/>\n         airlifted to hospital in a serious condition.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\"> Police said the white truck was heading south, while the silver station wagon was heading north.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wzdDHKkU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThere was a separate crash before the fatal crash, involving other vehicles, about 500m north of the scene on SH1, which caused traffic to back up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 20 Nov, 2025 11:17 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,6375,28654,3549,8609,11784,5504,71,42,15415,43,529,1118,675,3109,28050,11729,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-145548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-appeal","tag-appealing","tag-crash","tag-double","tag-fatal","tag-following","tag-from","tag-headlines","tag-information","tag-news","tag-north","tag-of","tag-police","tag-public","tag-thursday","tag-timaru","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145548","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=145548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}