Details of Railway Accidents in the Ottawa Area

1991, February 24 - A VIA Rail kills a pedestrian at Vars, CNR., Alexandria sub.

Ottawa Citizen 25 February 1991 Train kills pedestrian in Vars A mentally handicapped woman was hit and killed Sunday by a passenger train in Vars. The victim has been identified as Carol Louise Greene, 51. Greene had lived at Gregoire Residence in Vars, a home for the mentally handicapped, for 3½ years. Vars is 25 kilometres southeast of Ottawa. Lucien Goyette, residence manager, said Greene and another patient were walking along the tracks about noon Sunday and became confused when they heard the approaching train's whistle and walked in front of the train.

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