Elderly man dead after a train collides with truck in Airdrie

A man has died after his pickup truck was hit by a train at a railway crossing at 1 Avenue N.W. in Airdrie shortly before 2 p.m. Thursday.

EMS said it took emergency crews hours to extricate the man, believed to be in his 80s, from his badly damaged Ford F-150 pickup truck. He died on scene.

The area was closed to traffic while RCMP investigated. They interviewed a number of witnesses at the scene.

It’s still unclear what led to the crash.

No one else was hurt.