Details of Railway Accidents in the Ottawa Area

1992, January 22 -  Crossing collision, Jasper, CPR., Brockville sub., one fatality

From the Ottawa Citizen 23 January 1992 TRAIN RAMS PICKUP Man killed at crossing A 39-year-old Ontario Hydro employee was killed Wednesday when a Via Rail train slammed into his truck at Jasper, 10 kilometres southeast of Smiths Falls. Provincial police said the Hydro pickup truck was east-bound on County Rd. 16. It drove across a level crossing, which had operational flashing lights and bells, when it was struck by the southbound train at 10:30 a.m. There was no one else in the truck. The victim's name is being withheld pending notification of next of kin. No one on the three-coach train was hurt.

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