{"id":33212,"date":"2025-07-18T19:23:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/man-dies-after-car-crashes-onto-railway-tracks-in-harrogate\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T19:23:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:23:23","slug":"man-dies-after-car-crashes-onto-railway-tracks-in-harrogate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/man-dies-after-car-crashes-onto-railway-tracks-in-harrogate\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after car crashes onto railway tracks in Harrogate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A man has died after his car left the road and crashed down a railway embankment onto tracks in Harrogate, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The man, in his 70s, had been travelling on York Place in a silver VW Golf before the crash at about 15:20 BST, North Yorkshire Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">He was pronounced dead at the scene, with his family being supported by specialist officers, a spokesperson confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The road remains closed, while the railway line between Harrogate and Leeds has also closed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Some train services between Leeds and York have been cancelled because of the disruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Supt Andy Nunns said York Place was &#8220;likely to remain closed for most of this evening and the railway line between Harrogate and Leeds is likely to be closed for most of the night&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">He offered his condolences to the man&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c99482r9p1jo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has died after his car left the road and crashed down a railway embankment onto tracks in Harrogate, police said. The man, in his 70s, had been travelling on York Place in a silver VW Golf before the crash at about 15:20 BST, North Yorkshire Police said. He was pronounced dead at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[558,5176,1017,7106,417,3647,8442],"class_list":["post-33212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-car","tag-crashes","tag-dies","tag-harrogate","tag-man","tag-railway","tag-tracks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33214,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33212\/revisions\/33214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}