{"id":78451,"date":"2025-10-14T19:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/78451\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T19:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:49:08","slug":"truck-collides-with-freight-train-near-waikanae-railway-station-on-kapiti-coast-roads-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/78451\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck collides with freight train near Waikanae Railway Station on K\u0101piti Coast, roads closed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The freight train had come to a stop on the tracks.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice said both the truck and train drivers are uninjured despite the large wreck. Photo \/ Darrin Bull<\/p>\n

Police, Fire and Emergency New Zealand and Hato Hone St John vehicles could be seen blocking the road.<\/p>\n

Motorists have been advised to follow the directions of emergency service staff at the scene.<\/p>\n

Nearby resident Darrin Bull, who lives approximately 200m from the level crossing, told the Herald he didn\u2019t see the accident but \u201ccertainly heard it\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was outside. I heard the train horn and it didn\u2019t stop. It was big and long and at the same time the brakes.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou kind of thought, \u2018this was interesting\u2019, and then an almighty bang. The brakes and the horn kept going and then there was silence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AA nearby resident said he heard the train’s horn and brakes before an ‘almighty bang’, and then silence. Photo \/ Darrin Bull<\/p>\n

Bull said there was a \u201cwhole stack of sirens\u201d after the incident at dawn.<\/p>\n

He visited the scene shortly after and said the train had travelled several hundred metres after the accident before coming to a stop.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just a mess, you can see the smashed up cab.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bull said he was surprised nobody had been injured in the crash.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a big truck. I would have thought the train driver might have been injured.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said quite a few roads around the scene had been closed and that there would be significant disruptions for \u201cabout a third of Waikanae\u201d, who live on the other side of the train line.<\/p>\n

\"KiwiRailKiwiRail said the Elizabeth St level crossing was \u201cfully protected\u201d with barrier arms, lights and bells. Photo \/ Darrin Bull<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the only way out. There\u2019s no way for them to get to work. There\u2019s a school on that side, so if your kids are on this side of the train track they can\u2019t get to school.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a local community issue for some time, whenever something goes wrong with the signals or anything, about a third of Waikanae gets blocked off.\u201d<\/p>\n

A KiwiRail spokesperson told the Herald the Elizabeth St level crossing was \u201cfully protected\u201d with barrier arms, lights and bells.<\/p>\n

\u201cEmergency services are on site, and any further information on the incident should come from the police,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is causing some disruption, with Wellington commuter services terminating at Paraparaumu, and has also impacted the Capital Connection from Palmerston North, which is being bus replaced from Otaki.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The freight train had come to a stop on the tracks. Police said both the truck and train…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,5201,11586,60829,34094,48054,19552,19688,60830,60832,25449,1304,3180,111,43,139,69,90,46868,20383,13655,1961,11685,23857,60833,60831,102],"class_list":["post-78451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-closed","tag-coast","tag-collides","tag-collision","tag-crossing","tag-driver","tag-escaped","tag-freight","tag-kpiti","tag-level","tag-morning","tag-near","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-railway","tag-roads","tag-station","tag-this","tag-train","tag-truck","tag-uninjured","tag-waikanae","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78451","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=78451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}