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30 May 2011

Man Struck Killed on Alliston Rail Bridge

Alliston Ontario - An Alliston man is dead after being struck by a train Sunday evening on a local rail bridge.
 
Nottawasaga OPP responded to a call from Canadian Pacific Railway employees shortly before 6 p.m. about a pedestrian being hit on the bridge that crosses the Boyne River, north of Victoria Street.
 
Police have identified the deceased as a 26-year-old Alliston man. However, Const. Kelly Daniels-Griffis said his name will not likely be released.
 
A post-mortem examination is scheduled for Monday at Royal Victoria Hospital in Barrie.
 
Daniels-Griffis said the man was struck by a slow-moving evening train that was heading southbound to the Honda manufacturing plant.
 
She said there is nothing to stop people from walking on the tracks.
 
"That train goes right across main street in the centre of downtown."
 
The investigation continues.
 
Emergency crews closed the roads in both directions around the scene for the investigation. Technical traffic collision investigators and officers with the crime unit were on scene for most of the night and the roads were re-opened around 3 a.m.
 
Daniels-Griffis said Sunday's deadly collision happened "fairly close" to where a Banting Memorial High School student was killed last year, almost to the day.
 
Patrick Conry, 17, died 27 May 2010, when he was struck by a southbound CP on the tracks north of Victoria Street in Alliston. Police say Conry was wearing headphones and likely didn't hear the train approaching as it blew its horn.