{"id":244423,"date":"2026-02-10T08:02:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=244423"},"modified":"2026-02-10T08:03:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:03:01","slug":"train-crash-in-dekalb-county-kills-1-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=244423","title":{"rendered":"Train crash in DeKalb County kills 1 person"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A CSX train hit a vehicle at a railroad crossing in Scottdale early Tuesday, killing one person and injuring another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Happening:<\/strong> The collision happened at about 1:56 a.m. at the N. Clarendon Avenue and Ponce De Leon Avenue crossing. Two people were inside the vehicle. One died at the scene. The other was taken to a nearby hospital. The second person&#8217;s condition has not been released. No one on the train crew was hurt. DeKalb County Public Safety responded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Still Unknown:<\/strong> The names of the two people in the vehicle have not been made public. It is not clear how serious the second person&#8217;s injuries are. What led to the vehicle being on the tracks has not been explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What Happens Next:<\/strong> CSX said it will support local law enforcement as they finish the investigation. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A CSX train hit a vehicle at a railroad crossing in Scottdale early Tuesday, killing one person and injuring another. What&#8217;s Happening: The collision happened at about 1:56 a.m. at the N. Clarendon Avenue and Ponce De Leon Avenue crossing. Two people were inside the vehicle. One died at the scene. The other was taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":232407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"behind","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13026,8801,12798],"class_list":["post-244423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-crash","tag-csx","tag-train","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}