{"id":393657,"date":"2026-04-23T11:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/393657\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:43:10","slug":"child-on-bike-struck-by-car-in-tokoroa-hit-and-run-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/393657\/","title":{"rendered":"Child on bike struck by car in Tokoroa hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A young child is in hospital with serious injuries after a hit-and-run in the central North Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">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 class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The crash happened near the Woolworths supermarket and the driver sped off, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police were now looking for a grey Nissan sedan with an unknown registration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">They said the alleged driver was described as a &#8220;as fair skinned male wearing glasses with shoulder length hair&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">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 class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/emergencies_local\/593249\/child-on-bike-struck-by-car-in-tokoroa-hit-and-run\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rnz.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young child is in hospital with serious injuries after a hit-and-run in the central North Island. Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,9001,42,43,40,38,41,39,112],"class_list":["post-393657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-hamilton-waikato","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393657","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=393657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}