WINNIPEG, Manitoba — A semi truck went off an overpass and struck a Canadian National train today (Friday, Nov. 22) in Winnipeg, sending the truck’s driver to the hospital and derailing an unknown number of railcars.
“It appears the semi hit the train,” Winnipeg police spokeswoman Dani McKinnon told the Winnipeg Free Press. “There is going to be an extensive [road] closure in the area for some time.”
The truck’s driver was airlifted to a hospital for treatment; no word on his condition was available.
A CN spokesman told CTV News that there were no leaks or fires reported and no risk to the public to the public from the incident near the interchange of the Trans-Canada Highway and Perimeter Highway on Winnipeg’s east side.
The incident occurred about 3 p.m. A photograph on the Global News website shows at least a dozen covered hoppers on their side with a badly damaged truck tractor resting against one of the railcars.
Perimeter Highway at the accident site remained close as of 5 p.m. local time.
— Updated at 8 p.m. CT with additional information.
Pretty sure that’s not how Roadrailer is supposed to work…
Another incident that probably no one ever thought of. happening. Just a wrong place and wrong time incident.
Truckers normally just ambush trains at crossings, now they’re going airborne.
To quote Star Wars Ep. 8: “They fly now?!?”