{"id":217947,"date":"2026-01-05T14:25:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/217947\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:25:17","slug":"person-dies-in-rolleston-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/217947\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dies in Rolleston crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person has died after a single-vehicle crash in Canterbury this morning.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said the crash was reported on Jones Rd near Rolleston in the Selwyn district just after 7.45am on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sole occupant of the vehicle died at the scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jones Rd was closed while a scene examination was carried out, but re-opened about 12.45pm, police said in an update.<\/p>\n<p>Hato Hone St John sent an ambulance, a rapid response unit and operations manager to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>It referred all further inquiries to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has died after a single-vehicle crash in Canterbury this morning. A police spokesperson said the crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-217947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217947","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=217947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}