{"id":445277,"date":"2026-05-26T02:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/445277\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T02:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:27:08","slug":"pedestrian-dies-after-being-hit-by-van-in-red-beach-initially-sustained-critical-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/445277\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies after being hit by van in Red Beach, initially sustained critical injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">Police confirmed the pedestrian was from the Whangapar\u0101oa area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">The driver of the van was uninjured.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Police examined the scene where the van collided with a pedestrian on Whangapar\u0101oa Rd by Taniwha Cr. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward. \" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police examined the scene where the van collided with a pedestrian on Whangapar\u0101oa Rd by Taniwha Cr. Photo \/ Hayden Woodward. <\/p>\n<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">A Herald photographer said Whangapar\u0101oa Rd was closed at the intersection with Hibiscus Coast Highway. It reopened shortly after midnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">Photos from the scene showed a white van with damage to its front right corner, including a dented bonnet and smashed windscreen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nUsMXbVhTwNo\" style=\"display:none\">A specialist crash investigator examined the scene near the intersection with Tawhana Cres. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police confirmed the pedestrian was from the Whangapar\u0101oa area. The driver of the van was uninjured. Police examined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,3952,7972,682,3595,11728,6179,7126,3594,2241,78,48949,104,111,43,139,69,6507,33551,15406,89271,64174,11427,1316],"class_list":["post-445277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-aucklands","tag-beach","tag-being","tag-by","tag-critical","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-hit","tag-hospital","tag-in","tag-initially","tag-injuries","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-overnight","tag-pedestrian","tag-red","tag-sustained","tag-sustaining","tag-van","tag-when"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445277","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=445277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}