A man has been charged over the death of a cyclist in Christchurch following a crash earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Emergency services were called to Evans Pass Road in Sumner on February 22 around 5.30pm, following the crash<\/a> involving a car and a cyclist. <\/a><\/p>\n The victim, 60-year-old Dr Ian Huntsman, from Redcliffs, later died in hospital. <\/p>\n He was a highly regarded aeronautical engineer and multisport athlete who previously made headlines for surviving a 100-metre fall on Aoraki\/Mt Cook in 2020.<\/p>\n Police said today that a 21-year-old man had been charged with dangerous driving causing death and failing to stop to ascertain injury. <\/p>\n He is due to appear in the Christchurch District Court on June 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged over the death of a cyclist in Christchurch following a crash earlier this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,111,43,139,69,104994],"class_list":["post-458228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one-news-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458228","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=458228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}