{"id":587295,"date":"2026-09-01T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T22:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/587295\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T22:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T22:06:09","slug":"pedestrian-dies-after-being-run-over-by-vehicle-on-te-puke-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/587295\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies after being run over by vehicle on Te Puke Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>1 Sep, 2026 08:03 PMQuick Read<\/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 person has been hit by a car on the Te Puke Highway in the western Bay of Plenty. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A person has died after being run over by a vehicle in Te Puke last night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The crash happened just after 9pm on Te Puke Highway, close to Manoeka Rd, on the outskirts of the western Bay of Plenty town, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The road was closed for several hours and<br \/>\n         has now reopened.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Police inquiries into the circumstances of the crash remain ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">A Hato Hone St John spokesman said it sent  an ambulance, rapid response unit and operations manager to the crash. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 1 Sep, 2026 08:03 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,682,3595,6179,7126,26755,685,111,43,139,2551,69,90,1523,33551,4056,46601,8145,8690,6845],"class_list":["post-587295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-being","tag-by","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-highway","tag-last","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-night","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-over","tag-pedestrian","tag-person","tag-puke","tag-run","tag-te","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587295","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=587295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}