{"id":83505,"date":"2025-10-17T03:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/83505\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T03:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T03:12:11","slug":"collision-at-auckland-level-crossing-causes-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/83505\/","title":{"rendered":"Collision at Auckland level crossing causes disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An incident involving a car and a train at a level crossing in Auckland&#8217;s Avondale this morning has seen a road closed and delays and cancellations on the Western Line.<\/p>\n<p>Vision from the scene at Chalmers Street shows a car with damage to its front and a stopped train. <\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the scene at 8.20am. <\/p>\n<p>Hato Hone St John said it assessed one patient, who was treated at the scene. They did not require transportation to hospital.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/RTSNIRU27NBSTIIAR2LACCOPFA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">(Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p>All rail services on the Western Line north of Avondale have been suspended until further notice, the Auckland Railway Operations Centre confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Police said it is working with train authorities to establish how the crash occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including Trump and Putin agree to meet over Ukraine, contaminated drinking water puts six people in hospital, and a lucky escape for a headphone wearing commuter.  (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An incident involving a car and a train at a level crossing in Auckland&#8217;s Avondale this morning has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1081,51,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-83505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-auckland","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83505","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=83505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}