An e-scooter rider has died in hospital following a crash in central Christchurch at the weekend.<\/p>\n
Police this afternoon said they were called to Antigua St near the Burke St intersection about\u00a012.10am on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“The scooter rider received serious injuries and was transported to hospital.<\/p>\n
“Sadly, despite best efforts from medical professionals, the man died in hospital.”<\/p>\n
Police said they did not believe another vehicle was involved, but inquiries were ongoing.<\/p>\n
They wanted\u00a0to speak with anyone in the area at the time of the crash, or who had CCTV footage from the area.<\/p>\n
The man was wearing a light-coloured jacket over a New Zealand Warriors top, blue jeans, and sneakers.<\/p>\n
“Police ask anyone with CCTV or dashcam footage in the area to please review their footage, and if you see anything that may assist our inquiries, please contact us.”<\/p>\n
\u00a0– 105,\u00a0reference number 260621\/1392, or anonymously through Crime Stoppers online or through 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n
\u00a0– Allied Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An e-scooter rider has died in hospital following a crash in central Christchurch at the weekend. Police this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-489592","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\/489592","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=489592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}