{"id":580953,"date":"2026-08-26T14:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/580953\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:24:09","slug":"arrest-after-man-hit-by-car-doing-burnouts-at-gathering-near-feilding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/580953\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest after man hit by car doing burnouts at gathering near Feilding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 20-year-old has been arrested after a man was hit  and critically injured by a car doing burnouts at an &#8220;anti-social road user&#8221; gathering near Feilding over the weekend.  <\/p>\n<p>He was charged with sustained loss of traction while driving, causing injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/08\/23\/young-man-critically-injured-after-being-hit-by-car-near-feilding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">were called to Halcombe Rd<\/a>, north of Feilding, on Saturday, August 22 at 12.20am.  Police said the driver allegedly fled the scene.  <\/p>\n<p>Detective Sergeant Grant Christian said the victim was found with &#8220;extensive injuries&#8221; and remained in a serious condition at Wellington Hospital.  He was being supported by family.  <\/p>\n<p>The alleged offender was arrested last night and is due to appear in Palmerston North District Court on September 1.  <\/p>\n<p>Investigators were also looking for a green 2000 Ford Falcon AU Futura sedan believed to be involved in the incident.  <\/p>\n<p>Christian urged anyone who may have witnessed, or had video footage, of the incident to come forward.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 20-year-old has been arrested after a man was hit and critically injured by a car doing burnouts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-580953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","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\/580953","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=580953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}