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[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally Posted by rob love

That's nothing: Last Saturday evening I was driving back from my favorite surplus junkyard, and got hit by a VIA passenger train doing 90. Destroyed my car, but I walked away from it.

Rob
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Driver escapes injury when his car collides with train

By: Staff Writer

7/06/2009 9:05 AM | Comments: 0

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A 47-year-old man escaped injury when his car was in collision with a passenger train near Portage la Prairie Saturday night, RCMP said.

The collision between the car and the five-car passenger train occurred at a crossing on Highway 242, about five miles north of Highway 1, around 6:30 p.m.

The driver, the only occupant of the car, was able to get out of the vehicle on his own.

There were no injuries to passengers or crew from the train.

A 47-year-old man was charged with fail to obey rail crossing sign under the Highway Traffic Act.