{"id":639431,"date":"2026-10-23T22:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T22:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/639431\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T22:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T22:22:11","slug":"witness-cyclist-sought-after-fatal-truck-and-car-crash-in-blenheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/639431\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness cyclist sought after fatal truck and car crash in Blenheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are looking for a cyclist believed to have witnessed a fatal crash between a car and a truck in Blenheim yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred at the intersection of Wither and Howick Roads at around 10.55am.  <\/p>\n<p>One person died at the scene, police said.  <\/p>\n<p>Just before the crash, nearby CCTV captured a cyclist travelling in the same direction as the truck on Wither Road. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe the cyclist could have either witnessed the truck passing by or may have seen or heard the crash,&#8221; police said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If this is you, or you recognise who this may be, please get in touch \u2013 any information you have could significantly assist in our enquiries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone else with information about the crash was urged to call police on 105. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are looking for a cyclist believed to have witnessed a fatal crash between a car and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,42,16256,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-639431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-headlines","tag-marlborough","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\/639431","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=639431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}