{"id":23348,"date":"2025-09-15T07:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/23348\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T07:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:49:09","slug":"police-name-teen-victim-of-fatal-bluff-highway-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/23348\/","title":{"rendered":"Police name teen victim of fatal Bluff Highway crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo: Toni McDonald\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757922549_159_img_6532.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Emergency services at the scene of last week&#8217;s crash. Photo: Toni McDonald<\/p>\n<p>Police have named the young man who died in a crash on the Bluff Highway last week.<\/p>\n<p>He was Caleb Wilson Moss, 19, of Invercargill.<\/p>\n<p>Police earlier said they were called to a two-vehicle crash on Bluff Highway (SH1), near the intersection with Kew Rd, at about 6am on Thursday, September 11.<\/p>\n<p>The highway was closed for several hours while the Serious Crash Unit examined the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police extended their sympathies to Caleb\u2019s family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Enquiries into the circumstances of the crash are ongoing, police said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services at the scene of last week&#8217;s crash. Photo: Toni McDonald Police have named the young man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-23348","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\/23348","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=23348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}