{"id":170778,"date":"2025-12-06T12:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T12:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/170778\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T12:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T12:04:07","slug":"kiwirail-issues-warning-after-young-people-on-tracks-force-train-to-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/170778\/","title":{"rendered":"KiwiRail issues warning after young people on tracks force train to stop"},"content":{"rendered":"

The anonymous poster advised parents to talk to their children about the dangers of playing on the train tracks.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the train was coming to a stop, the girls ran off like nothing had happened,\u201d the post read.<\/p>\n

Police told the Herald the young people had fled by the time officers arrived after the incident, and have not been identified.<\/p>\n

Locals were outraged over the incident, sending support to the driver and urging parents to better control their children.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Bell Street level crossing in Featherston. Photo \/ Google Maps<\/p>\n

\u201cOh how terrifying for the poor train driver,\u201d one commenter said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere are the parents?\u201d another wrote.<\/p>\n

Not-for-profit group TrackSAFE says trespassing<\/a> is the leading cause of railway deaths in New Zealand, with more than 100 people dying on tracks, tunnels and bridges in the past decade.<\/p>\n

TrackSAFE urges anyone who witnesses someone trespassing<\/a> on tracks to call 111 immediately.<\/p>\n

The Railways Act 2005 states a person is trespassing if they cross or walk along tracks at a place other than a designated crossing.<\/p>\n

Trespassing on railway tracks can lead to a fine of up to $10,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The anonymous poster advised parents to talk to their children about the dangers of playing on the train…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,17094,20493,110415,12631,5760,679,1452,17747,111,43,139,69,90,384,46868,88286,1324,61,9202,11685,62,1455,11587,4741],"class_list":["post-170778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-avoid","tag-brakes","tag-corridors","tag-dangers","tag-force","tag-forced","tag-issues","tag-kiwirail","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-people","tag-railway","tag-reminding","tag-stop","tag-to","tag-tracks","tag-train","tag-wairarapa","tag-warning","tag-yesterday","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}