{"id":449167,"date":"2026-05-28T08:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/449167\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T08:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T08:44:11","slug":"retired-pharmacist-killed-in-pukaki-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/449167\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired pharmacist killed in Pukaki crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The motorcyclist who died at the scene of a crash in the Mackenzie District at the weekend has been named.<\/p>\n<p>Retired Christchurch pharmacist, Jeffrey Alan Ross, 74, died following a collision with a car on State Highway 8\u00a0near the Tekapo-Pukaki Canal Bridge about 4.30pm\u00a0on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police extend our deepest condolences to Jeffrey\u2019s family and friends during this difficult time,&#8221; a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Enquiries into the circumstances of the crash are ongoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The motorcyclist who died at the scene of a crash in the Mackenzie District at the weekend has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-449167","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\/449167","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=449167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}