{"id":231261,"date":"2026-01-13T18:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/231261\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T18:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:32:08","slug":"person-found-injured-on-roadside-in-howick-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/231261\/","title":{"rendered":"Person found injured on roadside in Howick, Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A section of Union Rd near Pegler Dr in Howick has been cordoned off by police after a person was found critically injured on the roadside and rushed to hospital. 13 January 2026. New Zealand Herald photograph by Hayden Woodward. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A person has been found badly hurt on the side of the road in the Auckland suburb of Howick overnight, the Herald understands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police cordoned off a section of Union Rd, near Pegler Drive, overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         A St John spokesman said the service was called to a reported medical incident on<br \/>\n         Union Rd at 10.40pm, sending an ambulance and a rapid response vehicle.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">He could not elaborate on the nature of the incident, saying only that a patient had been taken to Middlemore Hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A section of Union Rd near Pegler Dr in Howick has been cordoned off by police after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,11425,1558,1874,10938,137484,14046,78,10933,111,43,139,69,90,6507,4056,1314,49612,6102,17294,10939],"class_list":["post-231261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-auckland","tag-badly","tag-been","tag-found","tag-herald","tag-howick","tag-hurt","tag-in","tag-injured","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-overnight","tag-person","tag-road","tag-roadside","tag-side","tag-suburb","tag-understands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231261","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=231261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}