{"id":682848,"date":"2026-05-20T11:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/682848\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T11:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:24:07","slug":"as-it-happened-wa-news-for-wednesday-may-20-watoday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/682848\/","title":{"rendered":"As it happened: WA news for Wednesday, May 20 &#8211; WAtoday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi1gFBVV95cUxNY0FLYnV2NzMtWkRHZ3ZCbk9DQUVBZkpwMjNwNVZSdFBIV29FTjVXSi1WdUJwWnVpa0tJcHFtX1BPc2plc29UenM1eUROM0h4YkZUaFNfQW1hejZSR2t0cldvbFRBSjlNaFN1bkt5WElCcDNTQ0JickRCZUxjQkVSWkRWMTlxUzhxSnNILWNrZG4ySzhvcG1PV21JNFNvX0Nha0kwcWZGYmNxUGVncGQ1RjdMMFdMYmc4NXFKVEN0VlV1RV84bURHTHZ1TTZCeVJvVWEtMVFn?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">As it happened: WA news for Wednesday, May 20<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;WAtoday<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihAFBVV95cUxQdEdNTmd1c3VURlNNdlNOcGZuSnZHc05SVlFieGJSbzFER1Y2V0g5MGZsdmhia05oVGZ2aUVwWTUwb2kwN0dyRmdWLWJOcmlCaG5uX2dtMk9XNDI0MWlkMEtqRUpiUTh2YlBuOXpsUER4bmRRUUtkM2ZyeUJ3T2NiVjVWaS0?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Truck torn in half after collision with train at level crossing, six injured<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Australian Broadcasting Corporation<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi1wFBVV95cUxNWWdlOUcxeERFZ1VNcjQyc1dXal9wSHBpd1IySXRLVHRsTUxHMUpubndsRDBaSUJobFZ1NVk2emFaUFc2UXZ6Y1hHYV9GUGlXcmpya0ZZNlZoYUtxNkl0aDVvcnljZEFhUXVYVzRtdmVxQ0VUanNoOVN2ck0tREtoQWhEQm1NaUEtakJQc0diaHFueXU4QjNWOHByYmc5RElNb2JMbTE1bVpxQ3NkTEpnanc1YUtuUGhkRHlMbFRGZDQ5SzN4NGtXak9KeTNzQlVLb0VRNkpOMA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trains cancelled as serious crash closes road in Perth<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;PerthNow<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi0AFBVV95cUxPYWQ2Y3d4YWx5VU9wVW5aYUZ3SFBjNEpZT2RRVVJDTlQzS1NZS3JGcG43bFlBd093a0NGTUhWZnFtSk1YVkhaVFlfYjN2c2lFaVFLaFVJYy1aYy1qTmdqMHVjMGl1OVd0LWdtSzVma2VEcTh6Zm9sbDJVTERpRWx4bFFYYmhIcjJtTVJIVGJaSzcwUl9ZSm1XVWxkcktVSnRJMlgxUnFuY0Y4WlVjeWJJNVhQdlBvY3FXaU9DZkwtUU11ektoMV8yaExDd3BMUk5U?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WA news LIVE: Midland train line down after dump truck hit by train at Guildford<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;SMH.com.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As it happened: WA news for Wednesday, May 20&nbsp;&nbsp;WAtodayTruck torn in half after collision with train at level&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-682848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682848","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=682848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}