Canada
- October 7, 1966 - Dorion level crossing accident — - 19 killed
- December 12, 1975 - A TTC bus travelling east on St. Clair Ave. E. collided with a westbound GO Transit train at the level crossing just west of Midland. Nine people were killed and 20 others injured. This was the worst accident in terms of loss of life in the history of the TTC and GO Transit systems. The level crossing was replaced by an overpass a few years later.
- January 24, 2009 - A train collided with an empty police cruiser left at the crossing on Wallace Avenue, in Toronto.
- January 25, 2009 - A man is killed in Vanier after his car collided with a train on one of the last two level crossings in Quebec City.
- 2009- A Canadian National train collides with a flatbed truck in Vancouver. No one is hurt or killed.
Read more about this topic: List Of Level Crossing Accidents
Famous quotes containing the word canada:
“This universal exhibition in Canada of the tools and sinews of war reminded me of the keeper of a menagerie showing his animals’ claws. It was the English leopard showing his claws.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)