{"id":13056,"date":"2025-03-18T06:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13056"},"modified":"2025-03-18T06:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:42:13","slug":"person-dies-after-being-hit-by-freight-train-at-invercargill-pedestrian-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=13056","title":{"rendered":"Person dies after being hit by freight train at Invercargill pedestrian crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person has died after being hit by freight train at a pedestrian crossing in Invercargill near Elles Rd.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they were called to the scene near Turnbull Thomson Park at 5.20pm and found a person dead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A scene examination has been conducted and police and KiwiRail are working to clear the scene,&#8221; a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Police were working to identify the person who died, they said.<\/p>\n<p>St John said they sent one ambulance, an operations manager and a rapid response unit to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Elles Rd is closed between Tweed and Forth St while emergency services attend.<\/p>\n<p>KiwiRail said the person was hit on the Ness St crossing which had a pedestrian maze and signage.<\/p>\n<p>They also confirmed the train was only carrying coal at the time and the train driver is being offered support.<\/p>\n<p>This marked the second time in a week a pedestrian has died after being hit by a train.<\/p>\n<p>Last Wednesday, 13-year-old\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/544871\/matamata-teen-train-death-kiwirail-failed-to-follow-coroner-recommendation-after-2012-fatality\">Sarie Morton died after being struck by a train<\/a>\u00a0near Matamata College.<\/p>\n<p>Her death was being investigated by police.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person has died after being hit by freight train at a pedestrian crossing in Invercargill near Elles Rd. Police said they were called to the scene near Turnbull Thomson Park at 5.20pm and found a person dead. &#8220;A scene examination has been conducted and police and KiwiRail are working to clear the scene,&#8221; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13058,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13056\/revisions\/13058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}