{"id":300561,"date":"2026-02-25T00:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300561\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T00:12:08","slug":"two-people-critically-hurt-as-train-and-car-collide-in-new-plymouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/300561\/","title":{"rendered":"Two people critically hurt as train and car collide in New Plymouth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/p>\n

\nThe crash on Mountain Road in Lepperton was reported at 8.45am on Wednesday.
\nPhoto: Google Maps\n<\/p>\n

Two people are critically injured after the car they were in collided with a freight train near New Plymouth on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Emergency services responded to the crash off Mountain Road, State Highway 3A in Lepperton around 8.40am.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Hato Hone St John said a helicopter, two ambulances, and one operations manager attended.<\/p>\n

Two patients in a critical condition were taken to Taranaki Hospital, one by helicopter, and one by ambulance, they said.<\/p>\n

Fire and Emergency shift manager Alex Norris said firefighters had to cut the car’s occupants free from the wreck.<\/p>\n

The Serious Crash Unit was investigating and the road was down to one lane.<\/p>\n

Kiwirail chief operations officer Duncan Roy said the accident happened on the Marton-New Plymouth Line at a private level-crossing.<\/p>\n

He said the train was heading north to New Plymouth and the crossing is controlled by stop signs.<\/p>\n

“In line with our standard practice our driver will be given leave, and all of our staff involved will be offered support from KiwiRail,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Emergency services are attending the scene and any further comment should come from the police.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The crash on Mountain Road in Lepperton was reported at 8.45am on Wednesday. Photo: Google Maps Two people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-300561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300561","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=300561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}