{"id":447738,"date":"2026-05-27T12:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/447738\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T12:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T12:44:10","slug":"tekapo-crash-victim-named-as-christchurch-man-jeffrey-ross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/447738\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekapo crash victim named as Christchurch man Jeffrey Ross"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Christchurch retiree Jeffrey Alan Ross was killed in an accident near Tekapo on Sunday. Photo \/ Bevan Conley<\/p>\n

A man who died in a crash on Tekapo-Twizel Rd has now been named as 74-year-old Jeffrey Alan Ross.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the retired pharmacist was killed in a two-vehicle crash on State Highway 8, near Tekapo.<\/p>\n

Police have offered their \u201cdeepest condolences\u201d to the Christchurch man\u2019s family and friends.<\/p>\n

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\n are continuing to make inquiries into the circumstances of the accident<\/a>, which occurred near the intersection with Tekapo Canal Rd, south of the Tekapo-P\u016bkaki Canal Bridge.\n <\/p>\n

The main highway was closed while emergency services and the Serious Crash Unit responded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 27 May, 2026 04:22 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[217661,32220,806,1558,4487,3549,6179,42,53766,5158,10136,43,40584,130516,228202,40,38,41,39,1337],"class_list":["post-447738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-74yearold","tag-alan","tag-as","tag-been","tag-christchurch","tag-crash","tag-died","tag-headlines","tag-jeffrey","tag-man","tag-named","tag-news","tag-ross","tag-tekapo","tag-tekapotwizel","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-victim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447738","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=447738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}