{"id":388642,"date":"2026-04-20T11:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/388642\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T11:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:34:14","slug":"careless-driver-hits-pedestrian-near-hyde-st-party-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/388642\/","title":{"rendered":"Careless driver hits pedestrian near Hyde St party: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/leith_street.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" alt=\"The crash happened on Leith St. Photo: Google Maps\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The crash happened on Leith St. Photo: Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>A Dunedin driver has been charged with careless driving after he allegedly crashed into a pedestrian while travelling too fast through the student quarter during the Hyde St party.<\/p>\n<p>Police received multiple calls about the man after witnesses described his actions as &#8220;hitting pedestrians&#8221; while speeding through Leith St at 1pm on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred one street over from where the annual Hyde St party was being held, Acting Senior Sergeant Iain Notman said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations revealed the man had not run down pedestrians in the street, but instead attempted to swerve to avoid a pedestrian in the road, and in doing so accidentally hit another pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p>The road at the time had many pedestrians on it due to the party one street over.<\/p>\n<p>Snr Sgt Notman said while it was &#8220;not as sinister&#8221; as what was reported to police, he was still charged with careless driving as the man was not driving to the conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody was injured in the crash, he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.odt.co.nz\/news\/dunedin\/mailto:laine.priestley@odt.co.nz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">laine.priestley@odt.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The crash happened on Leith St. Photo: Google Maps A Dunedin driver has been charged with careless driving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-388642","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\/388642","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=388642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}