{"id":286089,"date":"2026-02-16T02:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/286089\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T02:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:23:08","slug":"police-investigation-after-child-hit-by-vehicle-on-matakana-valley-rd-matakana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/286089\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigation after child hit by vehicle on Matakana Valley Rd, Matakana"},"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 child is in a serious condition after being struck by a car in Matakana yesterday. Photo \/ NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A child is in a serious condition after being hit by a vehicle in Matakana. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Serious Crash Unit was called to Matakana Valley Rd just after 5.30pm yesterday  after reports a pedestrian had been struck by a car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         A police spokesperson said the child was taken to<br \/>\n         hospital, where they remain in a serious condition. The cause of the accident is being investigated.\n        <\/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":286090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,682,3595,2511,1239,3594,12898,57912,111,43,139,69,90,675,2642,1238,2217,6845],"class_list":{"0":"post-286089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-being","10":"tag-by","11":"tag-child","12":"tag-condition","13":"tag-hit","14":"tag-investigation","15":"tag-matakana","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-on","21":"tag-police","22":"tag-rd","23":"tag-serious","24":"tag-valley","25":"tag-vehicle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286089","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=286089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}