{"id":753887,"date":"2026-08-29T20:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T20:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/753887\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T20:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T20:32:09","slug":"man-dies-in-burscough-after-train-hits-van-on-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/753887\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies in Burscough after train hits van on crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A man has died after a train hit a van on a railway line. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The incident happened on a crossing in Burscough, West Lancashire, just after 15:00 BST. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British Transport Police (BTP) said a man who was in the van died at the scene, and two passengers on the Wigan Wallgate-Southport train suffered minor injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A BTP spokesman said: &#8220;Enquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances of what happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died after a train hit a van on a railway line. The incident happened on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-753887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}