{"id":582122,"date":"2026-08-27T16:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/582122\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T16:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T16:48:19","slug":"woman-charged-after-13-canterbury-rugby-team-members-injured-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/582122\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman charged after 13 Canterbury rugby team members injured in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">She will appear in court on September 14. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The crash happened in July. Photo \/ File\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The crash happened in July. Photo \/ File<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">After the crash, the club \u2013 an amalgamation of the former Burnham, Dunsandel and Irwell clubs, affiliated to the Ellesmere sub-union \u2013 posted on social media  that it would suspend play while its players recover from their injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAs many of you are aware, our team van was involved in a serious incident on Saturday night,\u201d said BDI Division 2 coach Steve Devereaux.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSeveral of our mates were injured and taken to hospital for treatment. We are incredibly grateful the situation was not worse, though a few of our lads now face a long road to recovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe want to express our sincere appreciation to the first responders and the volunteer fire brigades who came to our aid. Their quick actions and support made a tremendous difference during an extremely difficult moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAs a team, we have made the tough decision to end our season. We finished the season strongly leading into the finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe past 24 hours have been mentally draining for everyone across the club, but the messages of support we\u2019ve received have meant a great deal to us all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cRugby is the game we love, but it\u2019s the mateship that truly binds us together. We will regroup, we will heal, and we will come back strong in 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She will appear in court on September 14. The crash happened in July. Photo \/ File After the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19838,131961,74,1558,8126,13239,3549,78,10933,4754,111,43,139,69,38988,6327,7187,1361,1354],"class_list":["post-582122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-19838","tag-22yearold","tag-after","tag-been","tag-canterbury","tag-charged","tag-crash","tag-in","tag-injured","tag-members","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-relation","tag-rugby","tag-team","tag-that","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582122","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=582122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}