{"id":428303,"date":"2026-05-15T02:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/428303\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T02:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:48:14","slug":"taupo-pedestrian-hit-at-crossing-motorcyclist-charged-with-dangerous-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/428303\/","title":{"rendered":"Taup\u014d pedestrian hit at crossing: Motorcyclist charged with dangerous driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rotorua Daily Post<\/p>\n<p>15 May, 2026 01:28 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A man has been charged after a pedestrian was hit by a motorcycle at a Taup\u014d crossing this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The pedestrian was taken to hospital with serious injuries after Monday\u2019s crash on Taharepa Rd, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Senior Sergeant Andrew Livingstone said a 22-year-old man was due to appear in Taup\u014d<br \/>\n         District Court today.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">He was charged with driving dangerously causing injury, failing to stop or ascertain injury, and driving a motor vehicle in a dangerous manner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mplxTcLUMibHPxLgQP\" style=\"display:none\">Livingstone thanked everyone who assisted with the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rotorua Daily Post 15 May, 2026 01:28 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,1975,1558,13239,48054,8452,4189,3594,28369,33260,111,43,139,69,33551,1852,1961,686,102],"class_list":["post-428303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-at","tag-been","tag-charged","tag-crossing","tag-dangerous","tag-driving","tag-hit","tag-motorcycle","tag-motorcyclist","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pedestrian","tag-taup","tag-this","tag-week","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428303","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=428303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}