Details of Railway Accidents in the Ottawa Area

1988, June 7 - Car stalls on track, Brockville sub., no injuries.

Ottawa Citizen 8 June 1988 Car stalls on train track A woman whose car stalled on a railway track Tuesday nearC Smiths Falls leaped from her car I; seconds before it was demolished!; by a VIA train. Provincial police in Brockville said Karen Graham, 29, was driving home to Jasper at 7 p.m. when flashing red lights at a railway crossing warned a train was approaching. After Graham decided to race for it her 1978 station wagon stalled in the mid- die of the crossing.

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