{"id":298113,"date":"2026-02-23T12:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/298113\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:35:11","slug":"te-anau-hit-and-run-police-appeal-for-witnesses-after-person-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/298113\/","title":{"rendered":"Te Anau hit-and-run: Police appeal for witnesses after person dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>23 Feb, 2026 08:03 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\">Police are appealing for information about a hit-and-un in Te Anau.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police are appealing for information after a person died following a hit-and-run in the South Island town of Te Anau this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The incident  was outside a town centre business about 8.45am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Police have spoken with the driver but are still appealing for witnesses, including anyone with dashcam footage<br \/>\n         of the incident.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">Contact police  online at 105.police.govt.nz, by clicking \u201cUpdate report\u201d, or call 105.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 23 Feb, 2026 08:03 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":[74,164151,6375,28654,6179,7126,5504,2082,19191,15415,2514,1304,111,43,139,69,4056,675,1240,8690,1961,2951,28251],"class_list":{"0":"post-298113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-anau","10":"tag-appeal","11":"tag-appealing","12":"tag-died","13":"tag-dies","14":"tag-following","15":"tag-for","16":"tag-hitandrun","17":"tag-information","18":"tag-island","19":"tag-morning","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-newzealand","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-person","25":"tag-police","26":"tag-south","27":"tag-te","28":"tag-this","29":"tag-town","30":"tag-witnesses"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298113","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=298113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298113\/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=298113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}