{"id":267317,"date":"2026-02-04T14:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/267317\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T14:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:36:19","slug":"child-dies-in-canterbury-after-crash-between-car-and-pedestrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/267317\/","title":{"rendered":"Child dies in Canterbury after crash between car and pedestrian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>4 Feb, 2026 05:48 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<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 child walking on a Canterbury street has died after being hit by a car. Photo \/ Police <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A child has died after being hit by a car while walking on a Canterbury road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police confirmed the child\u2019s death following a serious crash on Leeston Rd, Springston. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said they were notified of the crash, which involved a car and a pedestrian, around 3.30pm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police<br \/>\n         confirmed that the pedestrian was a child, who, despite the best efforts of emergency services, sadly died at the scene.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 4 Feb, 2026 05:48 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,95,682,5432,8126,3944,2511,3549,6179,7126,78,111,43,139,69,33551,1314,4770,6123],"class_list":{"0":"post-267317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-and","10":"tag-being","11":"tag-between","12":"tag-canterbury","13":"tag-car","14":"tag-child","15":"tag-crash","16":"tag-died","17":"tag-dies","18":"tag-in","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-pedestrian","24":"tag-road","25":"tag-walking","26":"tag-while"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267317","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=267317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}