{"id":78844,"date":"2025-10-15T00:03:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/78844\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T00:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:03:05","slug":"truck-collides-with-freight-train-on-kapiti-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/78844\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck collides with freight train on Kapiti Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Road closures are in place and train travel disrupted after a truck carrying a dump truck collided with a freight train in Waikanae on the Kapiti Coast this morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police were notified that a truck and freight train had collided at 6.20am. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Fortunately both the truck and train drivers are uninjured,&#8221; a police spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/police-were-notified-that-a-truck-and-freight-train-had-coll-CVVBE2HSZVGABCS7NEFNEYHKDM.jpg\" alt=\"Police were notified that a truck and freight train had collided at 6.20am. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Police were notified that a truck and freight train had collided at 6.20am.  (Source: Martin Burton)<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Motorists were asked to follow the directions of emergency services staff at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Metlink train services on the K\u0101piti line are being bus replaced between Waikanae and Paraparaumu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Clearance of the line and the resumption of train services is currently expected to be around midday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">KiwiRail said the Elizabeth St level crossing was fully protected with barrier arms, lights and bells.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The Capital Connection service from Palmerston North has been bus replaced from \u014ctaki.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including calls for driving fines to go up, how a doorbell leaked politicians\u2019 phone numbers, and a scary moment at a gorilla enclosure.  (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Road closures are in place and train travel disrupted after a truck carrying a dump truck collided with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,42,43,40,38,41,39,112,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-78844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories","15":"tag-transport","16":"tag-wellington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78844","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=78844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}