High winds on SH2

Motorcyclist and train collide; nose-to-tail crash causes delays

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Police have warned drivers on the Rimutaka Hill Road to be careful as high winds buffet State Highway 2.

The MetService said gusty north-westerlies around Wellington and Wairarapa which reaching gale-force, with gusts around 100kmh in exposed places.

110km/hr) and will continue to maintain a watch for these areas.

Earlier today a car crash near Lindale Farm on State Highway 1 caused delays for motorists.

Police said two cars were involved in a ''minor nose-to-tail'' crash about 11.20am, 1km north of Paraparaumu.

Roadworks in the area were also adding to delays for drivers.

Meanwhile, a motorcyclist is in Palmerston North Hospital with serious leg injuries after colliding with a train in Feilding.

A Wellington Free Ambulance spokesman said the man, aged in his 40s, collided with the train about 5.35am at the intersection of Campbell Rd and Aorangi Rd.

Also this morning, commuters on the Hutt Valley and Wairarapa train lines faced delays of up to an hour this morning because of a disabled train.

Tranz Metro issued an alert to passengers at 7.34am warning that services were delayed because of a disabled train.

At 7.48am it was announced buses would replace trains between Petone and Wellington, then at 7.54am Tranz Metro said services on the Wairarapa line were also delayed because of a disabled train.

Just before 8am Tranz Metro estimated services were delayed for about an hour.

By 8.45am trains were operating between Petone and Wellington again.

Tranz Metro said trains on the Hutt Valley line would be running on schedule from 9.30am.

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paris   #6   10:23 pm Dec 18 2009

we can't reson with Fanatics cause they don't have brain.

Mingin   #5   12:39 pm Dec 18 2009

The trains are appalling. how hard is it to tell passengers that there will be a delay or track closures? Most of the time you have to wait until you get to the part of the track that's got the problem before you find out you have to get on a bus which they haven't even organised yet and spend the next hour and a half in a car park. There are only two tracks on the Paraparaumu line how hard can it be to monitor.

Ian McKinnon   #4   10:33 am Dec 18 2009

Rail won't even be fit for selling as the Public Servants have destroyed all the goodwill. What a joke, give them millions of dollars to improve infrastructure and their reliability gets even worse. Cullen must have hated New Zealand taxpayers.

Not happy   #3   09:55 am Dec 18 2009

Something similar happenned on the same line last tuesday and the thursady previous. Are we all so flush that we can afford to spend up to an hour a few times a week on the (stationary) train? What effect has this morning, with a few 1000 working hours being lost once again?

It would have been nice to get at least an apology actually.

nick   #2   09:20 am Dec 18 2009

This is why I drive now. Well this and the fact the trains are expensive.

Lewis   #1   08:40 am Dec 18 2009

Go the trains!

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