{"id":424529,"date":"2026-01-20T02:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/424529\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T02:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:36:08","slug":"two-dead-after-car-and-freight-train-collide-at-cressy-west-of-geelong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/424529\/","title":{"rendered":"Two dead after car and freight train collide at Cressy, west of Geelong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Two people are dead after a car and a freight train collided at Cressy, west of Geelong, on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Emergency services were called to reports of a freight train hitting a car at a railway crossing on Reddies Road about 10:15am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The two occupants of the car died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">They are yet to be formally identified.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An aerial shot showing a long train stopped in the middle of a country intersection with a road, with emergency vehicles nearby.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fe2ab335656720197446f52cbf7197fc.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police said the crash happened at a railway crossing that intersects with Reddies Road. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The train driver and two staff were the only occupants of the train.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police have not said if they were hurt, but Ambulance Victoria said it did not treat anyone else at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Aerial vision appeared to show the badly damaged vehicle broken in two, with the front section on its side near the intersection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Part of the rear appeared to be stuck under the front of train after being pushed along the track.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The train remained stationary at the scene about midday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Fire and State Emergency Service trucks were among the emergency vehicles on scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The train involved appeared to belong to SCT Logistics, which describes itself as Australia&#8217;s largest private rail freight operator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The company is based in Laverton, in Melbourne&#8217;s west.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said it had been notified of the crash and was gathering information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Australian Rail Track Corporation \u2014 the national body for freight and passenger train services \u2014 referred the ABC to Victoria Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Regional passenger train operator V\/Line says services have not been affected as the Warrnambool and Ballarat services run on a different track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people are dead after a car and a freight train collided at Cressy, west of Geelong, on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,11224,156858,44,223090,223089],"class_list":["post-424529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fatal","tag-freight-train","tag-news","tag-railway-crossing-crash","tag-train-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}