{"id":6894,"date":"2023-08-01T09:13:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T21:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6894"},"modified":"2023-08-01T09:13:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T21:13:37","slug":"man-dies-after-crashing-into-timaru-police-station-another-person-dead-and-more-injured-after-christchurch-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6894","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after crashing into Timaru police station, another person dead and more injured after Christchurch crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Two serious crashes across Canterbury overnight have resulted in two people killed and others with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One of the crash victims died after crashing into the Timaru Police Station after earlier being involved in a police pursuit, while another crash in Christchurch left one person dead and three others seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Aoraki Area Commander Inspector, Vicki Walker said the incident in Timaru began when police observed a man driving erratically in front of the local police station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Officers signalled for the driver to stop, this was however ignored by the driver as he took off at speed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">By 11.30pm, the car had been located on Barnard St and police attempted to stop the driver by spiking the vehicle\u2019s tyres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Following this, the driver then turned back to drive in the direction of the local Police Station.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE NZ HERALD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two serious crashes across Canterbury overnight have resulted in two people killed and others with serious injuries. One of the crash victims died after crashing into the Timaru Police Station after earlier being involved in a police pursuit, while another crash in Christchurch left one person dead and three others seriously injured. Aoraki Area Commander [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6894","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\/6894","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=6894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6896,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions\/6896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}