{"id":424700,"date":"2026-01-20T04:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/424700\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T04:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:24:10","slug":"two-killed-in-train-crash-at-level-crossing-west-of-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/424700\/","title":{"rendered":"Two killed in train crash at level crossing west of Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Isabel McMillan\" data-testid=\"author-avatar-image\" height=\"64\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4798354ec8b3dcd6d68086a830301af7f32ad566fd0f19acdeda86a7b5f15020.png\"  width=\"64\" class=\"sc-9a01536c-0 cJPmxL\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"article-datetime\" class=\"sc-5cbbddda-5 jMFiFd\">January 20, 2026 \u2014 12:17pm<\/p>\n<p>Save<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-d1b14060-4 NcyxX\">You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n<p>Remove items from your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/goodfood\/saved\" class=\"sc-3f16ee48-12 sc-d1b14060-2 kfUMNO cdQiAR\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-369d9219-1 eGTSJh\">Save this article for later<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-369d9219-2 crcSSW\">Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.<\/p>\n<p>Got it<\/p>\n<p>AAA<\/p>\n<p>Two people have been killed after their car was struck by a freight train at a level crossing on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were called to Reddies Road in Cressy \u2013 about 140km west of Melbourne \u2013 after reports a train and car had collided.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a fatal collision in Cressy this morning.\" aspectratios=\"[object Object]\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/eeabd608f9b7c8657523eb41b572d0292532ec14.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d2942506-1 wgbit\"\/>Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a fatal collision in Cressy this morning.Nine News<\/p>\n<p>Two people in the car, who are yet to be formally identified, died at the scene. The train driver and two staff members onboard the train survived.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Police said the circumstances surrounding the collision are yet to be established, with an investigation ongoing into how it occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Save<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-d1b14060-4 NcyxX\">You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n<p>Remove items from your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/goodfood\/saved\" class=\"sc-3f16ee48-12 sc-d1b14060-2 kfUMNO cdQiAR\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n<p>From our partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"January 20, 2026 \u2014 12:17pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-424700","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\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424700","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=424700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}