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Motorist charged after crash between semi, train

Semi driver hauling grain collides with CN train west of Landis, Saskatchewan on Friday. RCMP / Supplied

LANDIS, Sask. – A semi driver who was hauling grain has been charged after a collision with a Canadian National Railway Company (CN) train west of Landis, Saskatchewan on Friday morning.

Before 8 a.m., RCMP were called to a crash between a northbound semi and a westbound train.

Mounties say the semi truck made initial contact with the locomotive and was pushed into the ditch by the train. Both were travelling at a low rate of speed.

Semi driver hauling grain collides with CN train west of Landis, Saskatchewan on Friday. RCMP / Supplied

No one was injured.

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None of the train’s rail cars received any damage, which included cargo box cars and container units.

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CN officials examined the track so rail traffic could resume.

A local fire department assisted in the cleanup of a ruptured diesel fuel tank on the semi.

The 56-year-old semi driver has been charged with disobeying a railway stop signal.

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