{"id":460092,"date":"2026-06-04T05:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/460092\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:38:09","slug":"pedestrian-dies-in-dargaville-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/460092\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies in Dargaville crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pedestrian has died in a late-night crash in Dargaville, Northland.<\/p>\n<p>Police said emergency services responded to the crash between a car and pedestrian at the intersection of Murdoch Street and Colville Road just after 1.15am.<\/p>\n<p>The male pedestrian died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Murdoch Street was currently closed between Colville Road and Dargaville Rugby Park.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like to thank the members of the public who stopped to help before emergency services arrived,&#8221; police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019d like to hear from anyone we haven\u2019t yet spoken to who may have witnessed the crash, or who has dashcam footage of the incident.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a person was critically injured in another crash involving a car and pedestrian on Chapel Road in Auckland&#8217;s East T\u0101maki early this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The crash was reported around 6.39am.<\/p>\n<p>One person suffered critical injuries and Chapel Street was closed between Smales Road and Carlingford Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Police asked motorists to avoid the area and to expect delays. The serious crash unit would investigate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including Trump&#8217;s heated call with Netanyahu and New Zealand&#8217;s luckiest lotto player this year. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian has died in a late-night crash in Dargaville, Northland. Police said emergency services responded to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,42,43,1067,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-460092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-northland","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460092","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=460092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}