{"id":420793,"date":"2026-05-10T12:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/420793\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T12:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:12:17","slug":"toddler-believed-killed-in-canterbury-vehicle-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/420793\/","title":{"rendered":"Toddler believed killed in Canterbury vehicle incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A toddler has reportedly died after an incident involving a vehicle in Canterbury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to a property near Lake Ellesmere-Te Waihora about 8.30am yesterday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Senior Sergeant Craig Ellison earlier said one person had died following an incident involving a vehicle and a pedestrian at the private property.<\/p>\n<p>RNZ understands a child aged under two years old died.<\/p>\n<p>Ellison said residents could expect to see police presence in the area as staff work at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A toddler has reportedly died after an incident involving a vehicle in Canterbury.\u00a0 Emergency services were called to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-420793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420793","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=420793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}