{"id":452463,"date":"2026-05-30T08:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/452463\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T08:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:51:11","slug":"watch-car-flips-after-vehicle-crosses-median-strip-in-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/452463\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Car flips after vehicle crosses median strip in Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A Christchurch motorist said a car behind him had been \u201cflipped over\u201d after a vehicle crossed the median strip and crashed into it on Linwood Avenue this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Upon reviewing his dashcam footage of the crash, Aaron Pero said he felt his family had \u201cdodged a bullet\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Pero was in the car with his wife and two kids at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">\u201cI just made the decision to jump on the accelerator and move over to the left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">\u201cWatching behind my rearview mirror, I could see that same car hit the back of a Toyota Prado and then that Prado subsequently flipped over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/motorist-aaron-pero-had-dashcam-footage-of-the-incident-MMD75CK53RGDBGBDGFUCCC5J6Q.jpg\" alt=\"Motorist Aaron Pero had dashcam footage of the incident.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Motorist Aaron Pero had dashcam footage of the incident. (Source: Aaron Pero\/Facebook)<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Pero reflected: \u201cI was probably a second away from being involved in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">\u201cMy wife and I keep replaying the footage and in the event and just thinking how it was quite lucky to escape it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police told 1News the crash occurred at 10.30am on Linwood Ave near Smith St.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">\u201cThe road was blocked for a short time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Hato Hone St John confirmed one person had been seriously injured, while another two had been moderately injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">All three had been transported to Christchurch Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">A fourth person in minor condition was also assessed at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Christchurch motorist said a car behind him had been \u201cflipped over\u201d after a vehicle crossed the median&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[158,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-452463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-christchurch-canterbury","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\/452463","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=452463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}