2 February 2005
Train Kills Man
Painting Graffiti on Boxcar
Toronto - An
18-year-old man was hit and killed by a train Tuesday evening as he
spray-painted a boxcar in the west end of Toronto.
Police said the man was hit by a passing train around 9:45 p.m. as he and two friends painted a boxcar
parked on a track near Dupont and Christie streets.
The train that hit him was travelling at about 40 km/h on the track parallel to the one where the man
was painting, police said.
The graffiti artist died in an ambulance en route to hospital.
His name has not been released.
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