Re: [NSW] Truck driver killed instantly by XPT train

["Rod Gayford" <rjaygee@eisa.net.au>]

I saw it on the news and said to my mother "That is terrible" . She said "
The poor truck driver".  I said "No! Look at the bloody awful mess he made
of the side of the XPT power car and the passenger cars, they can't afford
to lose this many at once, bugger the truck driver".
Cheers
Rod Gayford

"Dino64" <dino64@iprimus.com.au> wrote in message
3a696bc7$1@news.iprimus.com.au">news:3a696bc7$1@news.iprimus.com.au...
> You'd think with all these accidents and fires that the XPT's seem to be
> having lately, that they'd run out of trains to run the services soon.
>
> Dino
>
> Daniel Bowen wrote in message ...
> >http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/0101/19/A14931-2001Jan19.html
> >
> >Truck driver killed instantly by XPT train
> >
> >Source: SMH|Published: Friday January 19, 4:11 PM
> >
> >
> >A 46-year-old man died instantly when his truck was hit by an XPT train
in
> >south-western New South Wales today.
> >
> >The XPT, en route from Melbourne to Sydney, hit the truck at the Burns
Road
> >crossing at Bomen, 5km north of Wagga Wagga about 1.30pm AEDT, a police
> >spokesman said.
> >
> >The driver of the truck was killed instantly.
> >
> >The crossing has lights and bells but no boom gate and authorities were
> >investigating how the accident occurred.
> >
> >There were no reports of any injuries to train passengers or the train
> >driver.
> >
> >Passengers were taken to Wagga Wagga by bus.
> >
> >AAP
> >
> >
> >
> >--
> >Daniel Bowen, Melbourne, Australia
> >dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au
> >http://www.danielbowen.com/
> >
> >
>
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