14 June 2008
Car Crashes with High Rail
Carnduff Saskatchewan - Carievale resident Shelley Douglas
is bruised and sore after the car she was driving collided with a CP railway truck that was driving on the CP railway tracks Wednesday
afternoon.
"It happened at 3:15 p.m. It was pouring rain and I turned from Highway 18 onto Highway 8 going south at Carievale and was
crossing the railway tracks. The crossing lights weren't activated. I didn't see the truck on the tracks and the driver didn't see
me," said Douglas, 54.
Douglas was badly shaken. The Carievale Volunteer Fire Department and first responders attended the scene and called an ambulance.
So, who does have the right of way in a case like that?
"We call those trucks a "high rail". A "high rail" is a truck that is fitted with steel wheels as well that
can drop down from the frame so that the truck can operate on the rail line. Standard procedure by CP for the operation of our
"high rails" is that they stop at any crossing," said Mike LoVecchio, senior manager of media relations at CP Rail.
"At the time of the accident it was raining heavily. Internally we are still investigating the
accident."
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