{"id":576697,"date":"2026-08-22T08:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T08:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576697\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T08:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T08:20:10","slug":"full-video-police-speak-after-officer-critically-injured-by-fleeing-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/576697\/","title":{"rendered":"Full video: Police speak after officer critically injured by fleeing driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer is in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/08\/22\/police-officer-critically-injured-after-being-hit-by-fleeing-driver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a critical condition after being struck by a fleeing driver<\/a> while laying road spikes in Palmerston North overnight.<\/p>\n<p>The officer was airlifted to Wellington Hospital, while a second officer was treated for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Central District Commander Superintendent Dion Bennett is expected to media from Police National Headquarters in Wellington at around 1.45pm.<\/p>\n<p>Police Minister Mark Mitchell is also travelling to Wellington today to offer his support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police officer is in a critical condition after being struck by a fleeing driver while laying road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,31044,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-576697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-manawatu-wanganui","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\/576697","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=576697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}