Two Macklin men died when a pick-up truck collided with a westbound CP Rail freight train a half mile west of Macklin on February 10 at approximately 8:30 p.m.
The crash occurred at a rural crossing marked with a railway cross sign and a stop sign. Road conditions were good for winter travelling. The pick-up collided with the 76th rail car of a 122 car train.
Funeral service was held for
Rodney Robert Teale, 31,
Friday, February 16, at Heritage
Funeral Home Chapel, Nipawin,
Sask. Gregory’s Funeral
Homes was in charge of
arrangements. Meanwhile a
funeral service was planned in
Newfoundland for 38 year old
Morley Eric Penney.
The other railway fatality
occurred on Sunday, February
18 at approximately 12:15 p.m.
when 32 year old Keenan
William Howe of Lloydminster
crashed his semi truck into an
eastbound CN Rail train by
Butze, just east of Chauvin.
“The railway crossing is a controlled crossing, with red lights and bells, but no crossing arm barrier,” said RCMP constable Murray Dyck. “Witnesses to the accident have stated that the crossing lights were in working order.”
Rodney Robert Teale, 31,
Friday, February 16, at Heritage
Funeral Home Chapel, Nipawin,
Sask. Gregory’s Funeral
Homes was in charge of
arrangements. Meanwhile a
funeral service was planned in
Newfoundland for 38 year old
Morley Eric Penney.
The other railway fatality
occurred on Sunday, February
18 at approximately 12:15 p.m.
when 32 year old Keenan
William Howe of Lloydminster
crashed his semi truck into an
eastbound CN Rail train by
Butze, just east of Chauvin.
“The railway crossing is a controlled crossing, with red lights and bells, but no crossing arm barrier,” said RCMP constable Murray Dyck. “Witnesses to the accident have stated that the crossing lights were in working order.”
Dyck said that as the trailer approached the intersection, it veered off the road to the right in an attempt to prevent the collision. The truck then flipped onto its side and slid into the train causing seven empty grain cars to derail. The engine remained on the tracks. There were 95 railway cars on the train.
“The driver of the trailer was pronounced dead on the scene by medical authorities,” Dyck added. He was the sole occupant of the tractor trailer unit.
Weather was clear and sunny with dry roads.
Officials had Highway 17 blocked off and routed traffic through Chauvin. There were no reports of injuries to CN crew. A CN spokesman told The News that it would likely be several days before the railway cars were taken away.
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