Gasson Street in Sydenham is closed while emergency services respond to a serious incident involving a train and a pedestrian.<\/p>\n
St John said it was notified of a crash involving a train on Gasson Street.<\/p>\n
One ambulance, one rapid response unit and an operations manager responded to the scene.<\/p>\n
Police said emergency services were alerted shortly after 4.10pm to an incident involving a pedestrian.<\/p>\n
The road is closed between Carlyle Street and Moorhouse Avenue and is expected to remain closed for some time.<\/p>\n
The Serious Crash Unit is at the scene.<\/p>\n
Witnesses reported seeing a stationary train on the tracks near the Gasson Street railway crossing, along with firefighters, ambulance crews and multiple police vehicles.<\/p>\n
People gathered near the scene appeared visibly shaken, one witness said.<\/p>\n
A person who works nearby told chrislynchmedia.com that \u201cthe train\u2019s horn didn\u2019t stop\u201d.<\/p>\n
Authorities have not yet confirmed the circumstances of the crash or the condition of the pedestrian.<\/p>\n
Motorists and members of the public are being asked to avoid the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gasson Street in Sydenham is closed while emergency services respond to a serious incident involving a train and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[373,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-583180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-featured","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583180","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=583180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}