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Truck driver seriously injured after West Coast Express train strikes vehicle in Port Moody, B.C.
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The driver of a pickup truck was seriously injured, police say, after his vehicle was struck by a West Coast Express commuter train in Port Moody, B.C., Tuesday morning, causing a one-hour delay for passengers.
The Port Moody Police Department says the train hit the truck just before 7:30 a.m. PT at the Reed Point Marina crossing.
The driver received serious but non-life-threatening injuries when he was "ejected from the vehicle," police said, and was taken to hospital.
Const. Sam Zacharias said no one on the train was injured.
Investigators say the driver of the truck did not yield at the train crossing and was hit by the westbound train.
"Our initial information from speaking to witnesses is that the vehicle was on the tracks, crossing the tracks around the arm signal that had been down at the time when it was struck by this moving train," Zacharias told CBC News.
He said police are still looking for information from witnesses.
The train was stopped for about one hour.
