{"id":267320,"date":"2026-02-04T14:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/267320\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T14:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:38:11","slug":"child-hit-by-car-in-canterbury-town-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/267320\/","title":{"rendered":"Child hit by car in Canterbury town dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A child has died following a serious crash in a small rural town Canterbury&#8217;s Selwyn District.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, police said they were called to a collision involving a car and a pedestrian in Leeston Rd, Springston, about 3.30pm today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police can confirm that the pedestrian was a child, who, despite best efforts of emergency services, sadly died at the scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No one else was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Leeston Rd remains closed\u00a0between Goulds Rd and Bethels Rd while the Serious Crash Unit conducted a scene examination.<\/p>\n<p>Inquiries into the circumstances of the crash were continuing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Allied Media\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A child has died following a serious crash in a small rural town Canterbury&#8217;s Selwyn District.\u00a0 In a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-267320","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\/267320","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=267320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}