{"id":459448,"date":"2026-06-03T21:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/459448\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T21:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:13:12","slug":"male-pedestrian-dies-after-being-hit-by-car-in-dargaville-northland-section-of-sh12-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/459448\/","title":{"rendered":"Male pedestrian dies after being hit by car in Dargaville, Northland, section of SH12 closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Murdoch St \/ SH12 remains closed between Colville Rd and Dargaville Rugby Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John confirmed  staff attended the crash but referred further inquiries to police.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SH12 &#8211; DARGAVILLE &#8211; CRASH &#8211; 4 JUNE, 5:44AM<br \/>Due to crash on SH12 between Colville Rd and Logan St in Dargaville, the road is closed in both direction. Allow extra time for your journey. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VP1jnPD4ff\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/VP1jnPD4ff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NZ Transport Agency &#8211; Auckland &amp; Northland (@nztaaklnth) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nztaaklnth\/status\/2062229560775573862?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Police would like to thank members of the public who stopped to help before emergency services arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rGEveXCr\" style=\"display:none\">Anyone who witnessed the crash or has dashcam footage has been asked to contact police on 105.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Murdoch St \/ SH12 remains closed between Colville Rd and Dargaville Rugby Park. Hato Hone St John confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,682,3595,3944,5201,23155,690,7126,7557,26755,3594,78,23157,6267,111,43,139,1067,24926,69,1118,22056,6507,33551,14777,45144,13672],"class_list":["post-459448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-being","tag-by","tag-car","tag-closed","tag-dargaville","tag-dead","tag-dies","tag-district","tag-highway","tag-hit","tag-in","tag-kaipara","tag-male","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-northland","tag-northlands","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-outskirts","tag-overnight","tag-pedestrian","tag-section","tag-sh12","tag-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459448","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=459448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}