{"id":248153,"date":"2026-01-23T17:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/248153\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T17:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:16:09","slug":"person-hit-by-vehicle-outside-christchurch-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/248153\/","title":{"rendered":"Person hit by vehicle outside Christchurch Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4MJOAHY_IMG_5321_JPG.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" alt=\"Christchurch Hospital Emergency Department\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThe emergency department is still able to be accessed.<br \/>\nPhoto: Supplied \/ Te Whatu Ora\n<\/p>\n<p>The road outside Christchurch Hospital has closed eastbound following a crash.<\/p>\n<p>A pedestrian was hit by a vehicle on Riccarton Avenue at 6.50pm.<\/p>\n<p>They have been seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are asked to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>However, the entrance to the emergency department is still accessible.<\/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":"The emergency department is still able to be accessed. Photo: Supplied \/ Te Whatu Ora The road outside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248154,"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-248153","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\/248153","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=248153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}