{"id":307114,"date":"2026-02-28T22:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/307114\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T22:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T22:24:07","slug":"person-injured-in-bunnythorpe-crash-dies-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/307114\/","title":{"rendered":"Person injured in Bunnythorpe crash dies in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>28 Feb, 2026 08:02 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\">The person died in hospital on Friday, two days after the crash. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A person injured in a three-vehicle crash near Palmerston North earlier this week has died in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were called to Kairanga Bunnythorpe Road at about 7.50am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said two people were taken to hospital in critical condition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cSadly, on 27 February, one of those two<br \/>\n         people sadly died in hospital,\u201d a spokesperson said.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"hVvnDVwvKaDCbCnNag\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPolice extend their condolences to their loved ones at this difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 28 Feb, 2026 08:02 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[167840,3549,6179,7126,3602,2241,78,10933,3180,111,43,139,529,69,6292,4056,1961,46403,686],"class_list":["post-307114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-bunnythorpe","tag-crash","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-earlier","tag-hospital","tag-in","tag-injured","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-north","tag-nz","tag-palmerston","tag-person","tag-this","tag-threevehicle","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307114","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=307114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}