{"id":600581,"date":"2026-09-15T00:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T00:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/600581\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T00:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T00:42:11","slug":"person-dies-after-vehicle-crashes-into-ditch-in-waimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/600581\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dies after vehicle crashes into ditch in Waimate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person has died after a vehicle crashed into a ditch on State Highway 1 in Waimate this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were called to SH1 at the intersection with O\u2019Neills Rd in Makikihi around 2.20pm. <\/p>\n<p>One person died at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>A second person was airlifted to Timaru Hospital in a critical condition. <\/p>\n<p>A Hato Hone St John spokesperson said it was alerted to the crash at 2.20pm and responded with two ambulances, one helicopter, one operations manager and one rapid response vehicle. <\/p>\n<p>Fire and Emergency said it responded with two crews from Waimate. <\/p>\n<p>The road remained closed but was due to re-open shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person has died after a vehicle crashed into a ditch on State Highway 1 in Waimate this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,158,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-600581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-christchurch-canterbury","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\/600581","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=600581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}