{"id":627135,"date":"2026-10-11T07:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T07:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/627135\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T07:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T07:36:09","slug":"police-name-cyclist-who-died-in-crash-near-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/627135\/","title":{"rendered":"Police name cyclist who died in crash near Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cyclist who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/10\/09\/driver-sought-after-cyclist-dies-in-crash-near-christchurch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">died in a crash with a car<\/a> near Christchurch on Friday has been named, as police continued to seek the driver of a small white hatchback.<\/p>\n<p>On October 9, emergency services were called to Dyers Pass Rd in Governors Bay at around 10.20am after receiving reports of a crash.<\/p>\n<p>A cyclist was pronounced dead at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>He was today named as 79-year-old Michael James Hancock of Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p>Police were continuing to appeal to the driver of a small white hatchback who officers believe may have information that could assist in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The driver had been travelling south on Dyers Pass Rd towards Governors Bay at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information, CCTV or dash cam footage was asked to contact police on 105.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cyclist who died in a crash with a car near Christchurch on Friday has been named, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1081,158,67,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-627135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-accident","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627135","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=627135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}