{"id":269278,"date":"2026-02-05T17:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/269278\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T17:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:05:18","slug":"springston-school-pupil-alexander-bennett-10-dies-in-canterbury-road-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/269278\/","title":{"rendered":"Springston School pupil Alexander Bennett, 10, dies in Canterbury road crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe have had a tragic passing of a student of our school. We are unable to provide any further details at this point as the police investigation is continuing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur thoughts are with the family of the child at this point as well as staff and students who are being supported within the school,\u201d the school board said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">Yesterday, police said the child   died at the scene despite the best efforts of emergency services. <\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">The road was closed between Goulds Rd and Bethels Rd while the Serious Crash Unit investigated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"kNVbbmPsnUpLRHJLT\" style=\"display:none\">Inquiries into the circumstances of the crash continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe have had a tragic passing of a student of our school. We are unable to provide any&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9055,74,34855,1558,682,57197,8126,2511,3549,6179,7126,42,78,10136,43,675,54757,1314,3175,4062,152840,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-269278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-9055","tag-after","tag-alexander","tag-been","tag-being","tag-bennett","tag-canterbury","tag-child","tag-crash","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-headlines","tag-in","tag-named","tag-news","tag-police","tag-pupil","tag-road","tag-rural","tag-school","tag-springston","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269278","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=269278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}