{"id":640353,"date":"2026-10-24T22:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T22:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/640353\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T22:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T22:22:09","slug":"christchurch-motorcycle-crash-leaves-rider-in-serious-to-critical-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/640353\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch motorcycle crash leaves rider in serious to critical condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>24 Oct, 2026 08:08 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 data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A motorcyclist is in serious to critical condition after crashing in Christchurch this morning. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A motorcyclist is in a serious to critical condition after crashing in Christchurch this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said the single-vehicle crash happened about 5.55am on the Southern Motorway\u2019s Halswell junction off-ramp, which remains closed as the Serious Crash Unit investigates. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The motorcyclist is in serious to critical condition in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Motorists are asked to take alternate routes, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 24 Oct, 2026 08:08 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,4487,1239,3549,20496,11728,78,7973,1304,28369,33260,111,43,139,69,1071,1238,1961,61],"class_list":["post-640353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-christchurch","tag-condition","tag-crash","tag-crashing","tag-critical","tag-in","tag-leaves","tag-morning","tag-motorcycle","tag-motorcyclist","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rider","tag-serious","tag-this","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640353","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=640353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}