{"id":624999,"date":"2026-10-09T03:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T03:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624999\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T03:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T03:52:10","slug":"driver-sought-after-cyclist-dies-in-crash-near-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/624999\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver sought after cyclist dies in crash near Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Police are seeking the driver of a small white hatchback after a cyclist was killed in a crash involving a car near Christchurch this morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Emergency services were called to Dyers Pass Rd in Governors Bay at around 10.20am after receiving reports of a crash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Sadly, the cyclist was pronounced deceased at the scene,&#8221; said Senior Sergeant Chris Wakelin. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Our thoughts are with their loved ones during this difficult time.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police were now appealing to the driver of a small white hatchback that was travelling south on Dyers Pass Rd towards Governors Bay at around 10.20am. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">They believed the driver may have information that could assist police inquiries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police were asking the driver, or anyone who knew the driver, to contact them via 105 using file number P067881921. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Dyers Pass Rd was closed between Summit Rd and Governors Bay Rd following the crash but had since reopened. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The serious crash unit had been notified and inquiries into the circumstances of the crash were ongoing, police said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are seeking the driver of a small white hatchback after a cyclist was killed in a crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[158,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-624999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624999","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=624999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}