No one was hurt after a train crashed into a semi-trailer in the town of Elie, Man., Thursday morning.
RCMP said the train and the deck of the semi-trailer collided just before 10 a.m. on Janzen Road, which is just south of Highway 1.
The train was a CN train and the driver of the semi wasn’t injured.
The crash closed a road nearby.
“Highway 248, in the town of Elie, is now closed due to a train obstructing the road,” reads the brief report from the province’s roads department.
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It is unknown what the train was carrying. Global News has reached out to CN for comment.
Elie is about 30 kilometres west of Winnipeg.
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