{"id":589069,"date":"2026-09-03T18:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/589069\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T18:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:36:10","slug":"police-probe-after-man-fatally-hit-by-multiple-vehicles-on-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/589069\/","title":{"rendered":"Police probe after man fatally hit by multiple vehicles on highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are seeking the public&#8217;s help after a man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/09\/02\/one-dead-after-crash-involving-pedestrian-in-te-puke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">walking on a Western Bay of Plenty highway<\/a> on Tuesday night was fatally struck by several vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The man was walking on Te Puke Highway near Manoeka Rd in Te Puke around 8.30pm when the incident occurred, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The man died at the scene from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police are seeking information as part of an investigation into the man&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with dashcam or CCTV footage showing the man walking on the highway prior to him being hit, or that showed the collision, was asked to contact police on 105.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are seeking the public&#8217;s help after a man walking on a Western Bay of Plenty highway on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,1756],"class_list":["post-589069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589069","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=589069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}