{"id":256723,"date":"2026-01-29T00:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/256723\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T00:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T00:16:08","slug":"person-dies-in-hospital-after-being-struck-by-vehicle-in-lynfield-auckland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/256723\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dies in hospital after being struck by vehicle in Lynfield, Auckland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A pedestrian was involved in a fatal crash in Auckland today. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A person has died after being hit by a vehicle in central west Auckland. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The crash on Commodore Dr, Lynfield, involving a vehicle and a pedestrian, was reported to police just after 8am. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The pedestrian was transported to hospital in a critical condition, however died shortly after arriving,<br \/>\n         a police spokesperson said.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">The Serious Crash Unit attended and inquiries into the circumstances of the crash were underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c SaveShare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,51,682,3595,1853,6179,7126,2241,78,84763,111,43,139,69,4056,20705,6845,3807],"class_list":["post-256723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-auckland","tag-being","tag-by","tag-central","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-hospital","tag-in","tag-lynfield","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-struck","tag-vehicle","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256723","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=256723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}