{"id":311939,"date":"2025-11-05T15:43:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=311939"},"modified":"2025-11-05T15:44:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:44:28","slug":"what-a-nightmare-excavator-crash-causes-huge-delays-near-south-yarra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=311939","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What a nightmare\u2019: Excavator crash causes train delays near South Yarra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Huge delays are expected after a truck carrying an excavator hit the Alexandra Avenue bridge near South Yarra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Caller Ron is caught up in the chaos and stated \u201cnobody is going anywhere\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to take a while to clear this up,\u201d Chris Miller from Transport Victoria told Jacqui Felgate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Press PLAY to hear the latest details on 3AW<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-omny-studio wp-block-embed-omny-studio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"&#039;What a nightmare&#039;: Excavator crash causes HUGE delays near South Yarra\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/3aw-drive\/what-a-nightmare-excavator-crash-causes-huge-delays-near-south-yarra\/embed#?secret=HCw0HWQ1ji\" data-secret=\"HCw0HWQ1ji\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Eyewitness Andrew called in and said there\u2019s \u201cconcrete all over the place\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe bridge has been smashed,\u201d Andrew said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Press PLAY to hear his dramatic account of the crash<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-omny-studio wp-block-embed-omny-studio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Eyewitness details dramatic truck smash under bridge\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/3aw-drive\/eyewitness-details-dramatic-truck-smash-under-bridge\/embed#?secret=k7HA6x0UWD\" data-secret=\"k7HA6x0UWD\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All South Eastern Lines for Metro trains and V\/Line have been suspended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Images: Supplied&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huge delays are expected after a truck carrying an excavator hit the Alexandra Avenue bridge near South Yarra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":311942,"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":[35,9770,10073,47],"tags":[8054,993,8],"class_list":["post-311939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-metro-trains-melbourne","category-myki","category-rail-news","tag-3aw","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311939","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311944,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311939\/revisions\/311944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/311942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}