{"id":388923,"date":"2026-04-20T15:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/388923\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:46:16","slug":"police-name-victim-of-fatal-canterbury-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/388923\/","title":{"rendered":"Police name victim of fatal Canterbury crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 30-year-old man killed in a crash on Main South Rd in the Selwyn district last week has been named.<\/p>\n<p>Keelan Breeze McCann, 30, died in the crash on State Highway 1 near Burnham shortly before 7.30am on April 14.<\/p>\n<p>Another person who was seriously injured in the crash remains in hospital in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency New Zealand sent three crews to the scene and freed two people trapped in the vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>State Highway 1 was closed for about four hours following the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Police thanked members of the public who stopped and rendered assistance to those involved in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said inquiries into the circumstances of the crash are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hato Hone St John sent two ambulances, two operations managers, a rapid response vehicle and a helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>-Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 30-year-old man killed in a crash on Main South Rd in the Selwyn district last week has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-388923","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\/388923","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=388923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}