{"id":851873,"date":"2026-08-11T21:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T21:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851873\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T21:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T21:56:12","slug":"punt-road-bridge-crash-truck-becomes-trapped-under-melbourne-rail-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851873\/","title":{"rendered":"Punt Road bridge crash: Truck becomes trapped under Melbourne rail bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/melbourne-ch7\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne<\/a> commuters faced major public transport delays and bumper-to-bumper traffic on a busy main road after a truck became stuck under a rail overpass.<\/p>\n<p>An oversized truck travelling along Punt Road in Richmond, east of the CBD, became trapped after attempting to pass under the rail bridge about 9.30am on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cc7889bc9968a58d724d4ee63c08c7a57d3730e3cc34f639e8036e8e45ced76d.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Traffic slowed to a crawl after the truck became stuck under the rail overpass.\u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n<p>Two northbound lanes on Punt Road past Swan Street were closed as emergency crews attempt to dislodge the truck.<\/p>\n<p>There were significant traffic delays of over an hour in the area, according to Vic Traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services remain on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Similar disruptions are impacting services on the Alamein, Belgrave, Glen Waverley and Lilydale lines on Melbourne\u2019s metro train network.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/30151ab235933a119b884124155e44ef8adb1e7bbd61ad23e2afc7aa72289628.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">The incident also resulted in train delays and cancellations.\u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome trains may remain stationary for extended periods at platforms or between platforms,\u201d Metro Trains said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSelect services may terminate\/originate at intermediate locations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne commuters faced major public transport delays and bumper-to-bumper traffic on a busy main road after a truck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-851873","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\/851873","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=851873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}