{"id":248965,"date":"2026-01-24T04:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/248965\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T04:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:05:14","slug":"pedestrian-hit-by-car-in-central-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/248965\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian hit by car in central Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person is in a serious condition after being struck by a car in central Christchurch this evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said they responded to the crash at about 6.50pm on Riccarton Ave.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The road is closed to eastbound traffic while emergency services are at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Entry to the hospital&#8217;s emergency department will remain accessible, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Serious Crash Unit has been advised.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are advised to avoid the area if possible and expect delays.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person is in a serious condition after being struck by a car in central Christchurch this evening.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-248965","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\/248965","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=248965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}