{"id":360866,"date":"2026-04-02T21:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/360866\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T21:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:31:11","slug":"person-dies-after-car-goes-down-bank-near-ettrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/360866\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dies after car goes down bank near Ettrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/img_2358_0.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Emergency services at the crash site yesterday. Photo: Julie Asher\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Emergency services at the crash site yesterday. Photo: Julie Asher<\/p>\n<p>One person has died following a crash near Ettrick in Central Otago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police were notified of the single vehicle crash in Moa Flat Rd about 11.20am yesterday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A car had come off the road and gone down a bank.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sadly, one person was found deceased at the scene,&#8221; police said in a statement this morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews from\u00a0Roxburgh and Millers Flat brigades attended, as did Hato Hone St John which sent a rapid response unit, one operations manager and one PRIME responder.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the\u00a0Serious Crash Unit were advised and inquiries into the circumstances of the crash were continuing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Allied Media\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services at the crash site yesterday. Photo: Julie Asher One person has died following a crash near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-360866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360866","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=360866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}