{"id":175608,"date":"2025-02-14T08:44:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T22:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=175608"},"modified":"2025-02-23T11:23:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T01:23:30","slug":"seven-injured-as-car-smashes-through-fence-onto-train-track-in-three-vehicle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=175608","title":{"rendered":"Seven injured as car smashes through fence onto train track in three-vehicle crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A car has landed on train tracks at Waterfall, in&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/sydney?page=1\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sydney<\/a>\u2019s south, after a three-vehicle crash on the Princes Hwy about 6.10am on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are fears not all of the seven people who&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/nsw\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NSW<\/a>&nbsp;Ambulance said were injured in the crash have survived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Southbound lanes of the highway have been closed, causing traffic delays for commuters as emergency services rushed to the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The impact of the crash sent one of the three cars involved through a fence before it landed on the railway tracks, NSW Police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six men, between the ages of 18 to mid-30s, have been hospitalised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of the men were taken to Liverpool Hospital, one by road ambulance and one by helicopter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another two of the men were taken to St George Hospital, and another two were taken to Wollongong Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Details of a seventh patient are at this stage unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-12.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-175609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-12.jpeg 650w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-12-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Bumper-to-bumper traffic was seen snaking away from the crash site, as motorists are diverted.&nbsp;Credit:&nbsp;7NEWS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic is being directed as emergency services attend the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":175610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,2996,47,2695],"tags":[5026,2139],"class_list":["post-175608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-crash","category-rail-news","category-sydney-trains","tag-nsw","tag-sydney"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175611,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175608\/revisions\/175611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/175610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}