{"id":225211,"date":"2026-01-09T15:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/225211\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T15:49:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:49:16","slug":"man-killed-in-crash-with-power-pole-near-timaru-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/225211\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed in crash with power pole near Timaru named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have released the name of the man who was killed when his vehicle crashed into a power pole near Timaru last month.<\/p>\n<p>He was 66-year-old Gary Kenneth Penman, of Timaru.<\/p>\n<p>The crash, which occurred on Seadown Rd, to the north of the city, was reported to police on the morning of December 22.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the public had come across the car, and Mr Penman, the sole occupant, was found dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police extend their condolences to Gary\u2019s family and friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His death has been referred to the Coroner.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8211; Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have released the name of the man who was killed when his vehicle crashed into a power&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-225211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225211","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=225211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}