{"id":298609,"date":"2026-02-23T20:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/298609\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:25:08","slug":"three-vehicle-crash-in-waikuku-north-of-christchurch-kills-one-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/298609\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-vehicle crash in Waikuku, north of Christchurch kills one person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>23 Feb, 2026 05:49 PMQuick 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\">One person died at the scene of a three-vehicle crash in Waikuku overnight. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One person has died following an overnight crash in Waikuku, north of Christchurch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were called to the three-vehicle crash on Main North Rd, near Tulls Rd, around 9.05pm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cDespite best efforts from emergency services, one person died at the scene,\u201d said a police spokesperson. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The<br \/>\n         road was closed while the Serious Crash Unit conducted a scene examination.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 23 Feb, 2026 05:49 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4487,3549,6179,5504,78,89404,111,43,139,529,69,1118,5270,6507,4056,46403,164325],"class_list":{"0":"post-298609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-christchurch","9":"tag-crash","10":"tag-died","11":"tag-following","12":"tag-in","13":"tag-kills","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-north","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-of","20":"tag-one","21":"tag-overnight","22":"tag-person","23":"tag-threevehicle","24":"tag-waikuku"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298609","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=298609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}