{"id":604288,"date":"2026-09-18T12:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/604288\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T12:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:44:14","slug":"one-dead-after-crash-between-car-and-train-in-invercargill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/604288\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after crash between car and train in Invercargill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person is dead after a crash involving a car and a train at a railway crossing in Invercargill.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle collided with two southbound locomotives coupled together at Mill Road South\u00a0about 1.20pm, a\u00a0KiwiRail spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The crossing was protected with flashing lights and bells, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>In an update about 5.10pm police confirmed the sole occupant of the vehicle died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>An inquiry was ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists were advised to expect delays while emergency services worked at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>An Otago Daily Times reporter at the scene earlier said a cover was placed over the vehicle involved.<\/p>\n<p> <img alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a2cedb8e-d30f-40e0-b134-492287a9ff0f-png.webp\" width=\"633\" height=\"564\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"narrow-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/><img alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a2cedb8e-d30f-40e0-b134-492287a9ff0f-png.webp\" width=\"633\" height=\"564\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"wider-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>State Highway 1 was closed between the intersection with Mill Road North and the Racecourse Rd roundabout for several hours, but shortly before 8pm NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi\u00a0advised it had reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists were told to take extra care in the area.<\/p>\n<p>It was earlier reported that the train involved in today\u2019s crash was a freight train. Police corrected the information in their update.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Allied Media<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person is dead after a crash involving a car and a train at a railway crossing in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-604288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604288","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=604288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}