{"id":418876,"date":"2026-05-09T02:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/418876\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T02:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:32:10","slug":"pedestrian-dies-after-incident-near-lake-ellesmere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/418876\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies after incident near Lake Ellesmere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4M1RJD5_image_crop_132972\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"No caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n(File photo)<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ\n<\/p>\n<p>A pedestrian has died, after an incident involving a vehicle at a property near Lake Ellesmere-Te Waihora in Canterbury, police say.<\/p>\n<p>The person died at private property on Pohau Road, Senior Sergeant Craig Ellison said.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were alerted about 8.30am Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Ellison said police would have an increased presence in the area, as staff worked at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/emergency\/594703\/woman-hit-by-car-on-wellington-motorway-has-died\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Police said earlier on Saturday<\/a> a woman pedestrian had died after being hit by a vehicle on Friday on a Wellington motorway.<\/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 daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(File photo) Photo: RNZ A pedestrian has died, after an incident involving a vehicle at a property near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-418876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418876","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=418876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}