{"id":236224,"date":"2026-01-16T10:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T10:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/236224\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T10:56:09","slug":"man-injured-after-being-hit-by-car-in-wellington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/236224\/","title":{"rendered":"Man injured after being hit by car in Wellington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4LXYB41_image_crop_136778\" width=\"1050\" height=\"699\" alt=\"No caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nA pedestrian has moderate to serious injuries after being hit by a car in Newtown.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Nate McKinnon\n<\/p>\n<p>A man has been injured after being hit by a vehicle in the Wellington suburb of Newtown.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to a report of a collision between a vehicle and a pedestrian in Riddiford Street about 6.40pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the pedestrian had moderate to serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be some disruption to traffic flow while emergency services work at the scene, especially in the south bound lane of Riddiford Street.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Motorists are advised to take alternative routes,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police will investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident and the Serious Crash Unit has been notified.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian has moderate to serious injuries after being hit by a car in Newtown. Photo: RNZ \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-236224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236224","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=236224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}