(TEMISKAMING SHORES, ON) – An issue with the railway light warning system and the transport travelling under the posted maximum speed limit contributed to a train versus tractor-trailer collision this past weekend.
This, according to a Scenes of Crime Officer, an OPP Technical Traffic Collision Investigator and an OPP Reconstructionist who attended the scene to assist in the investigation.
Saturday, at approximately 12:30pm, members of the Temiskaming Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police, District of Timiskaming Emergency Medical Services and Temiskaming Shores Fire Department were dispatched to a collision involving a train and a commercial motor vehicle at the Ontario Northland Railway crossing on Highway 11 near Bedard Road in Temiskaming Shores, Ontario.
The 36-year-old driver of the CMV from Unionville, Ontario, and the train occupants were uninjured. The passenger of the CMV sustained minor injuries and was transported to the hospital.
Highway 11 was closed for several hours and did not re-open until shortly after 9:00pm on Saturday.
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The OPP says the investigation continues.
