5th November 2012, 18:50
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Another case of a vehicle driver disregarding the boom gates down under resulting in 1 dead and quite a few injured.
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THE driver of a truck involved in Saturday's horrific collision with a train in Dandenong appears to have smashed straight through level crossing boom gates, the state's top transport safety official says.
The 69-year-old truck driver from Narre Warren North, whom police have not named, went through the crossing in Abbotts Road about noon on Saturday. He walked away unhurt, but the crash left a 43-year-old Cranbourne man on board the train dead - the first death of a passenger on Melbourne's electrified rail system in decades.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/tr...#ixzz2BNM4nZ81
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Canberra Times
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