{"id":595298,"date":"2026-09-09T19:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T19:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/595298\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T19:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T19:48:13","slug":"high-school-students-were-on-platform-when-boy-was-fatally-struck-by-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/595298\/","title":{"rendered":"High school students were on platform when boy was fatally struck by train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">The boy was struck by a train at Baldwin Avenue Station in Mount Albert on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Inspector Kerry Watson said police had worked to notify the next of kin &#8220;and the community will appreciate that this will be devastating news for them&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Family members were seen crying at the station on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">&#8220;Anyone who may have witnessed what happened, and who hasn&#8217;t spoken to police, are asked to make contact,&#8221; Watson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Auckland Transport said it expected some train services to be cancelled on the Western Line and it was advising customers to check its online journey planner or app before travelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The boy was struck by a train at Baldwin Avenue Station in Mount Albert on Wednesday afternoon. Inspector&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-595298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595298","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=595298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}