{"id":555201,"date":"2026-08-01T21:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T21:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/555201\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T21:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T21:03:11","slug":"pedestrian-dies-after-being-hit-by-car-in-whanganui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/555201\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies after being hit by car in Whanganui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/WJBBNFHEO5GXLN5HCNYJJHKXTM.jpg\" alt=\"Herald Reporters\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A pedestrian has died after being hit by a car on Puriri St near the intersection with Rogers St. Photo \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A person has died after being hit by a car in Whanganui. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were called to Puriri St in Gonville just after 8.30pm yesterday to reports a car had hit a pedestrian near the intersection with Rogers St. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cSadly, despite medical attention, the pedestrian died at the<br \/>\n         scene\u201d, said a police spokesperson.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"TErgZkLeGvuOzWkL\" style=\"display:none\">The Serious Crash Unit conducted a scene examination and inquiries into the exact circumstances of the crash are ongoing, they said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,682,3595,3944,6179,7126,3594,78,111,43,139,69,33551,4056,1883],"class_list":["post-555201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-being","tag-by","tag-car","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-hit","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pedestrian","tag-person","tag-whanganui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555201","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=555201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}