{"id":641201,"date":"2026-10-25T21:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T21:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/641201\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T21:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T21:08:16","slug":"christchurch-crash-sole-occupant-dies-after-car-hits-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/641201\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch crash: Sole occupant dies after car hits tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>25 Oct, 2026 06:50 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\">The sole occupant of a vehicle died after hitting a tree in Christchurch this morning. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One person has died following a crash in Christchurch Central early this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police were called around 3.20am with reports that a car had hit a tree near the intersection of Montreal and Armagh Sts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n          Senior Sergeant Craig Ellison said the sole occupant of the car was found dead<br \/>\n         at the scene.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">The road was closed while the Serious Crash Unit attended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">It reopened just after 7am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 25 Oct, 2026 06:50 PMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,3944,1853,4487,3549,6179,7126,2245,5504,4508,1304,111,43,139,69,174743,4056,77366,1961,15981],"class_list":["post-641201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-car","tag-central","tag-christchurch","tag-crash","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-early","tag-following","tag-hits","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-occupant","tag-person","tag-sole","tag-this","tag-tree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641201","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=641201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}