Details of Railway Accidents in the Ottawa Area

1966, February 6 - Crossing collision Jockvale Road. CNR Smiths  Falls subdivision, three injured

From the Ottawa Citizen 7 February 1966 Three injured when auto, train collide Sharon Anne Burnett, nine-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William P. Burnett, of RR 3, Ottawa, received a broken leg at 10 a.m. Sunday when a late-model car, driven by her father, hit a CNR passenger train on the Jockvale Road about six miles southwest of City View. Mr. and Mrs. Burnett were treated for minor head injuries at the Civic Hospital where their daughter was admitted. Nepean Township Constable Gordon Deavy said the injured were taken to hospital in a town ship fire department emergency truck. The car was demolished.

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