{"id":578035,"date":"2026-08-23T17:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T17:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/578035\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T17:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T17:54:14","slug":"feilding-crash-police-seek-driver-after-person-critically-injured-at-road-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/578035\/","title":{"rendered":"Feilding crash: Police seek driver after person critically injured at road event"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe want to speak with the driver as the information that he has will be vital to our investigation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Police were appealing to a \u201cnumber of people\u201d believed to be at the event at the time of the accident to come forward with any information that might help identify the driver.<\/p>\n

Investigators also understood people may have video footage of the incident, but could be facing pressure from others not to speak to police.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have any concerns, you can be assured that your information will be treated with the utmost confidence if you wish,\u201d Burrows said.<\/p>\n

Police were supporting the injured man\u2019s family and urged those who attended the event to \u201cdo the right thing\u201d and come forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a traumatic incident and something that could have so easily been avoided.<\/p>\n

\u201cAntisocial road activity is extremely dangerous, whether you are taking part or simply just observing, and this incident should be a reminder of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

People with information were urged to call police on the 105 non-emergency line or file a report online, quoting the file number 260822\/2821.<\/p>\n

Information could also be provided anonymously on 0800 555 111.<\/p>\n

The incident happened less than two hours before a police officer was critically injured in a separate incident<\/a> in nearby Palmerson North.<\/p>\n

The Palmerston North-based constable was deploying road spikes on Kairanga Bunnythorpe Rd about 2am on Saturday when he was struck by a fleeing vehicle and thrown several metres.<\/p>\n

He was airlifted to Wellington Hospital in a critical condition and remains in hospital on a ventilator, although police said today he was stable.<\/p>\n

Central District Commander Superintendent Dion Bennett said the man\u2019s road to recovery would \u201ctake some time\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is a great family man. In his mum\u2019s words, he\u2019s a good bloke \u2013 and we think so too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no shortage of love and support pouring in for him; his family are by his side and staying incredibly strong for him, and we\u2019re also doing everything we can to support them as they navigate this awful situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two teenage boys have since been charged in relation to that incident.<\/p>\n

Police told the Herald there was nothing at this stage to suggest the two incidents were related.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe want to speak with the driver as the information that he has will be vital to our…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,7818,86498,1975,682,1239,3549,11728,12939,19552,8231,194775,15037,2241,10933,10509,111,43,139,69,4056,675,1314,1439,11925,20705,74674,102],"class_list":["post-578035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-allegedly","tag-antisocial","tag-at","tag-being","tag-condition","tag-crash","tag-critical","tag-critically","tag-driver","tag-event","tag-feilding","tag-fleeing","tag-hospital","tag-injured","tag-manawat","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-police","tag-road","tag-scene","tag-seek","tag-struck","tag-user","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578035","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=578035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}