{"id":604340,"date":"2026-09-18T13:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/604340\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T13:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:54:12","slug":"invercargill-crash-person-dies-after-car-hit-by-freight-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/604340\/","title":{"rendered":"Invercargill crash: Person dies after car hit by freight train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789739652_686_WJBBNFHEO5GXLN5HCNYJJHKXTM.jpg\" alt=\"Herald Reporters\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">A person has died after a car and a freight train collided near Invercargill. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One person has died after a freight train hit a car near Invercargill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said the crash happened about 1.20pm near the intersection of East Rd (State Highway 1) and Mill Rd South. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The sole occupant of the car died at the scene, Acting Area Commander Inspector Stu Harvey<br \/>\n         said.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">A KiwiRail spokesperson said the crossing had flashing lights and bells.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">Hato Hone St John sent two ambulances and an operations manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,3595,3944,3549,6179,7126,60830,3594,18390,3180,111,43,139,69,4056,11685],"class_list":["post-604340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-by","tag-car","tag-crash","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-freight","tag-hit","tag-invercargill","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-person","tag-train"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604340","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=604340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}