{"id":464535,"date":"2026-06-06T21:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/464535\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T21:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T21:55:09","slug":"wellington-train-derailment-investigators-race-to-secure-evidence-which-could-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/464535\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington train derailment: Investigators race to secure evidence which could disappear"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThat\u2019s things like people\u2019s memories, any evidence that can get washed away.\u201d <\/p>\n

Cook said there is a lot of rain in the capital, so investigators will try to collect any at-risk evidence as soon as possible. <\/p>\n

TAIC inquiries can take 18 months to two years, depending on how complex the accidents are. <\/p>\n

However, if initial evidence suggests something requires urgent attention, the commission can issue an \u201curgent safety recommendation to those that can make a change\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this stage, we have no idea of the complexity of the inquiry.\u201d <\/p>\n

Investigators were on site last night and will be back in the coming days, Cook said. <\/p>\n

\"SixSix patients were taken to Wellington City Hospital after a train derailment in Wellington yesterday. Photo \/ Gary Hutchings<\/p>\n

The Metlink train derailed just after 7pm yesterday. <\/a><\/p>\n

Six patients were taken to Wellington City Hospital, four in a minor condition and two in a serious condition, Wellington Free Ambulance said. <\/p>\n

All passengers made it off the train, with no need for extrications. <\/p>\n

Wellington City Councillor Diane Calvert was at home when she heard \u201ca huge boom\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t sure what on earth what it was,\u201d Calvert said. \u201cIt was like an earthquake, but there was no shaking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Metlink senior operations manager Paul Tawharu said his immediate thoughts were \u201cfor the safety and wellbeing of the passengers and Metlink staff on board. I\u2019d also like to thank the emergency responders for their fast and excellent response.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThat\u2019s things like people\u2019s memories, any evidence that can get washed away.\u201d Cook said there is a lot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8604,3937,124,131928,235018,25283,49738,1958,40139,12065,60505,121444,111,43,139,69,14734,7798,312,24352,1361,61,11685,28355,52,6923,5977,4576],"class_list":["post-464535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-caused","tag-chief","tag-could","tag-derail","tag-derailment","tag-disappear","tag-evidence","tag-focus","tag-gather","tag-immediate","tag-investigator","tag-investigators","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-passenger","tag-race","tag-says","tag-secure","tag-that","tag-to","tag-train","tag-trying","tag-wellington","tag-what","tag-which","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464535","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=464535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}