Details of Railway Accidents in the Ottawa Area

1960, January 28 - 15 cars derailed when a freight train hit a tanker-transport truck at Prescott, CPR.  No injuries.

From the Ottawa Citizen 29 January 1960 One man was seriously injured, his transport demolished, 15 CPR freight cars derailed and a diesel engine overturned when the freight plowed into a tanker-transport near Prescott yesterday.  Three Ottawa men, all members of the train crew, escaped possible injury. The accident occurred on Highway 401 about a mile northeast of Prescott shortly after 3.45 p.m.

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