A man was airlifted to a Toronto trauma centre after it’s believed he was accidentally struck by a train in the municipality of Port Hope on Sunday afternoon.
The incident happened around 4 p.m. at the Canadian National Rail crossing on Haskill Road just west of Port Hope.
Northumberland OPP report the 33-year-old man was looking for his dog along the tracks when he was struck by an eastbound CN train.
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Trains staff and emergency personnel found the man conscious in a north side ditch about 200 metres from the tracks.
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OPP say he was airlifted from a nearby field with serious but non-life threatening injuries.
A stop-train order was put into effect but was lifted a short while later, OPP said.
The investigation into the incident continues.
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