{"id":393426,"date":"2026-04-23T08:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/393426\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:04:08","slug":"child-on-bike-struck-by-car-in-tokoroa-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/393426\/","title":{"rendered":"Child on bike struck by car in Tokoroa hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4JPPJM0_hit_andrun_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"679\" alt=\"A child on a bike was hit by a car on Torphin Crescent in Tokoroa.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nThe child was hit on Torphin Crescent.<br \/>\nPhoto: Google Maps\n<\/p>\n<p>A young child is in hospital with serious injuries after a hit-and-run in the central North Island.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the child was on their bike when they were struck by a car on Torphin Crescent in Tokoroa around 4.30pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened near the Woolworths supermarket and the driver sped off, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police were now looking for a grey Nissan sedan with an unknown registration.<\/p>\n<p>They said the alleged driver was described as a &#8220;as fair skinned male wearing glasses with shoulder length hair&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Police asked that anyone with information about the driver, or the car, to contact Police on 105 quoting file number 260422\/6148.<\/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":"The child was hit on Torphin Crescent. Photo: Google Maps A young child is in hospital with serious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393427,"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":["post-393426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393426","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=393426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}