{"id":383294,"date":"2026-04-16T23:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/383294\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T23:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:45:08","slug":"napier-street-closed-after-incident-involving-bus-and-pedestrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/383294\/","title":{"rendered":"Napier street closed after incident involving bus and pedestrian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">A police spokesperson said road users should avoid the area and expect lengthy delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">The Serious Crash Unit has been notified and Fire and Emergency New Zealand confirmed it was in attendance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Hawke\u2019s Bay Regional Council chair Sophie Siers said the \u201cserious accident\u201d involved Route 3 of the GoBay buses, which the council managed and planned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis is an extremely distressing situation, and our thoughts are with everyone affected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">The crash happened close to a rail crossing on Tennyson St.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">While the crash did not involve any trains or the railway, the rail crossing was within the police cordon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cFollowing a serious non-rail related traffic collision in Napier this morning the line has been closed pending police clearance,\u201d a KiwiRail spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSome freight services are affected as a result.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">MORE TO COME<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police spokesperson said road users should avoid the area and expect lengthy delays. The Serious Crash Unit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,95,30482,1853,5201,5504,42,671,29819,3607,43,33551,5424,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-383294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-and","tag-bus","tag-central","tag-closed","tag-following","tag-headlines","tag-incident","tag-involving","tag-napier","tag-news","tag-pedestrian","tag-street","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383294","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=383294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}