{"id":528772,"date":"2026-07-16T09:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/528772\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T09:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:59:18","slug":"hongkonger-dies-in-new-zealand-car-crash-third-fatality-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/528772\/","title":{"rendered":"Hongkonger dies in New Zealand car crash, third fatality this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A Hongkonger has died in a traffic accident in New Zealand, marking at least the second fatal crash involving city residents in the country this year.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Chinese consulate in Christchurch said on Thursday that the resident died in a \u201cserious traffic accident\u201d a day earlier along Crown Range Road near Queenstown.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cOur consulate is deeply saddened by the loss and has activated its emergency response mechanism immediately,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe extend our deepest condolences to the family of the victim and will do our utmost to provide consular assistance for their arrival in New Zealand to handle the necessary arrangements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The consulate did not provide details of the victim or the nature of the accident.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">New Zealand police said on Wednesday that a crash involving a car and bus occurred along the Crown Range Road near Cardrona, a township home to a ski resort, at about 10.15am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Hongkonger has died in a traffic accident in New Zealand, marking at least the second fatal crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61121,4487,261128,4431,261127,23401,111,107481,43,139,69,20930,14095,20477,220373],"class_list":["post-528772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-cardrona","tag-christchurch","tag-crown-range-road","tag-hong-kong","tag-hongkonger","tag-immigration-department","tag-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand-police","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-queenstown","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-south-island","tag-traffic-accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528772","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=528772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}