{"id":17252,"date":"2026-04-24T05:20:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17252"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:20:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:20:43","slug":"child-on-bike-struck-by-car-in-tokoroa-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17252","title":{"rendered":"Child on bike struck by car in Tokoroa hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young child is in hospital with serious injuries after a hit-and-run in the central North Island.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the child was on their bike when they were struck by a car on Torphin Crescent in Tokoroa around 4.30pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened near the Woolworths supermarket and the driver sped off, police said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--Z2aiOwVr--\/c_crop,h_1280,w_2048,x_0,y_569\/c_scale,h_1280,w_2048\/c_scale,f_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1776932710\/4JPPFA6_677729160_1267335462201550_6814080435157130681_n_jpg?_a=BACCd2AD\" alt=\"Police are looking for a grey Nissan sedan with an unknown registration in the case of a hit-and-run.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1050\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">Police are looking for a grey Nissan sedan with an unknown registration in the case of a hit-and-run.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0Supplied \/ Police<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Police were now looking for a grey Nissan sedan with an unknown registration.<\/p>\n<p>They said the alleged driver was described as a &#8220;as fair skinned male wearing glasses with shoulder length hair&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Police asked that anyone with information about the driver, or the car, to contact Police on 105 quoting file number 260422\/6148.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young child is in hospital with serious injuries after a hit-and-run in the central North Island. Police said the child was on their bike when they were struck by a car on Torphin Crescent in Tokoroa around 4.30pm on Wednesday. The crash happened near the Woolworths supermarket and the driver sped off, police said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17254,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17252\/revisions\/17254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}