{"id":383432,"date":"2026-04-17T01:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/383432\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T01:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:31:09","slug":"person-killed-in-crash-involving-bus-and-pedestrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/383432\/","title":{"rendered":"Person killed in crash involving bus and pedestrian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4JU8LDT_PolicecarGeneric1_RNZ_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"814\" alt=\"A police car seen behind a cordon as officers attend an incident.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nA police car seen behind a cordon as officers attend an incident.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ\n<\/p>\n<p>Despite the efforts of emergency personnel, one person died at the scene on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers were on the bus at the time, but no other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers were warned earlier in the day to expect long delays after the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The police said the incident on Tennyson Street in the central city was reported to them at 8.30am.<\/p>\n<p>The street is closed for a scene examination and diversions are in place.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said the diversions would likely be in place for much of the day.<\/p>\n<p>The Serious Crash Unit has been notified and is looking at the circumstances around the crash.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police car seen behind a cordon as officers attend an incident. Photo: RNZ Despite the efforts of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-383432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383432","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=383432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}