{"id":85364,"date":"2025-10-18T00:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/85364\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T00:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:23:16","slug":"cyclist-critical-after-crash-in-central-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/85364\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist critical after crash in central Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cyclist has been taken to hospital in a critical condition after a collision with a car in central Christchurch this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were called to the scene,\u00a0at the intersection of Colombo and King Sts in Sydenham,\u00a0about 12.40pm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Initial indications suggest there have been serious injuries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hato Hone St John said it responded with two ambulances and three rapid response vehicles, The New Zealand Herald reports.<\/p>\n<p>One person was assessed at the scene and taken to Christchurch Hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>The Herald said a second person had moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police said there was a road closure at the scene and diversions were in place.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists were advised to avoid the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cyclist has been taken to hospital in a critical condition after a collision with a car in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-85364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85364","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=85364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}