{"id":209440,"date":"2025-12-31T04:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/209440\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T04:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:37:08","slug":"napier-road-death-police-name-man-who-died-in-hospital-after-being-struck-on-boxing-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/209440\/","title":{"rendered":"Napier road death: Police name man who died in hospital after being struck on Boxing Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Duncan\u2019s death was the first in the country on the roads over the Christmas holiday period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">There has since been a second death in Hawke\u2019s Bay, taking the region\u2019s toll across Hawke\u2019s Bay and Tararua to 23 in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">On Tuesday evening, police confirmed a driver had died after their car went over a bank on State Highway 2 north of Napier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">State Highway 2 was closed for several hours after the serious crash north of Tangoio Settlement Rd about 11.45am. <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Crews had been working to extract one person from the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Police said the sole occupant died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi closed SH2 north of Whirinaki, with the crash scene being about 11km to the north, near White Pine Bush Scenic Reserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duncan\u2019s death was the first in the country on the roads over the Christmas holiday period. There has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,1558,682,2023,5972,634,6179,42,2241,78,5158,13617,10136,3607,43,90,675,1314,20705,40,38,41,39,1299],"class_list":["post-209440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-been","tag-being","tag-boxing","tag-day","tag-death","tag-died","tag-headlines","tag-hospital","tag-in","tag-man","tag-name","tag-named","tag-napier","tag-news","tag-on","tag-police","tag-road","tag-struck","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209440","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=209440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}