{"id":630097,"date":"2026-10-14T06:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T06:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/630097\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T06:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T06:26:13","slug":"teen-arrested-after-man-seriously-injured-on-new-plymouth-coastal-walkway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/630097\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen arrested after man seriously injured on New Plymouth Coastal Walkway"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A 17-year-old has been arrested after an alleged assault that left a man seriously injured on New Plymouth\u2019s Coastal Walkway. <\/p>\n

Police said a man walking on the Coastal Walkway, a shared path for walkers and cyclists, was assaulted by a motorcycle rider about 7am on Tuesday, September 29.<\/p>\n

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\n victim was pushed on to nearby rocks and suffered serious injuries,\u201d Taranaki Area Commander Inspector Mark Miller said.\n <\/p>\n

\u201cThe offender was also aggressive to members of the public who witnessed the incident before speeding off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miller said the victim was bleeding and in pain when police arrived and an ambulance transported him to hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41814,74,1554,11924,17704,1558,9191,10933,101,5158,117,111,43,139,69,90,49267,309000,23419,5163,1361,105587],"class_list":["post-630097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-17yearold","tag-after","tag-alleged","tag-arrested","tag-assault","tag-been","tag-coastal","tag-injured","tag-left","tag-man","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-plymouth","tag-plymouths","tag-seriously","tag-teen","tag-that","tag-walkway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630097","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=630097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}