{"id":195461,"date":"2025-12-21T22:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/195461\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T22:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:38:08","slug":"timaru-fatal-crash-member-of-public-comes-across-a-car-crashed-into-a-power-pole-with-body-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/195461\/","title":{"rendered":"Timaru fatal crash: Member of public comes across a car crashed into a power pole with body inside"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cPlease avoid the area if possible,\u201d police said. <\/p>\n

It comes on the same piece of road where five teens – alled aged 15 or 16 – died in a horror crash four years ago<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Tyreese Fleming was just 19 when he crashed his Nissan Bluebird into a concrete power pole on Seadown Rd on August 6, 2021, killing passengers Javarney Wayne Drummond, 15, Niko William Hill, 15, Jack Wallace, 16, Joseff McCarthy, 16, and Andrew Goodger, 15.<\/p>\n

Fleming, a restricted driver who had been drinking alcohol before getting behind the wheel, pleaded guilty to five charges of dangerous driving causing death and was later sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison.<\/p>\n

He was released from prison after serving 16 months in jail<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPlease avoid the area if possible,\u201d police said. It comes on the same piece of road where five…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2840,7800,10748,3944,8608,3549,15979,11784,1874,2944,296,1329,1304,111,43,139,69,1118,14727,23897,10112,3109,1361,1961,11729,102],"class_list":["post-195461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-across","tag-body","tag-came","tag-car","tag-comes","tag-crash","tag-crashed","tag-fatal","tag-found","tag-inside","tag-into","tag-member","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-outside","tag-pole","tag-power","tag-public","tag-that","tag-this","tag-timaru","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195461","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=195461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}