{"id":612868,"date":"2026-09-26T23:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T23:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/612868\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T23:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T23:46:11","slug":"hamilton-crash-pedestrian-dies-after-being-struck-by-vehicle-in-pukete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/612868\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton crash: Pedestrian dies after being struck by vehicle in Pukete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>26 Sep, 2026 06:41 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 class=\"\">A person has died after being hit by a vehicle in Hamilton last night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services were called to the crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian on Church Rd, Pukete, at about 9.45pm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cSadly, the pedestrian died at the scene,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The road remains closed while<br \/>\n         the Serious Crash Unit completes their examination.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"zEEGoQobVQRR\" style=\"display:none\">Inquiries into the circumstances of the crash are ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 26 Sep, 2026 06:41 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,682,3595,3549,6179,7126,6288,78,685,111,43,139,2551,69,33551,4056,301826,20705,6845],"class_list":["post-612868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-being","tag-by","tag-crash","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-hamilton","tag-in","tag-last","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-night","tag-nz","tag-pedestrian","tag-person","tag-pukete","tag-struck","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612868","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=612868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}