The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) and the CN Police Service are investigating a truck-train collision earlier this week in Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska, Que. Which involved two transport trucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec (Provincial Police) said the collision happened at around 1:30 a.m. on Monday when a Via Rail passenger train collided with the trailers of two transport trucks. S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec spokesperson Audrey-Anne Bilodeau told CBC the two trucks had pulled into a parking lot near Highway 289 but somehow parked too close to the tracks. Bilodeau told the CBC that the truck drivers would have had to go over the railway to access the parking lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe need to let the Transportation Board of Canada and CN Police to conduct a comprehensive review before commenting on the specifics of this collision, but this incident no doubt highlights the difficulty drivers have finding safe places to park their vehicles and allow them to get the rest needed to operate a commercial vehicle safely,\u201d said CTA president and CEO Stephen Laskowski. \u201cThe lack of safe truck parking space across Canada is a serious problem.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Addressing this is critical to driver wellbeing and also affects public safety and supply chain efficiency, which were highlighted by the trucking industry in CTA\u2019s report on interprovincial trade barriers in both 2023<\/a> and it\u2019s 2025 report<\/a>, says CTA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Government of Canada and the provinces have been examining this issue for the National Highway System because of the discussions on interprovincial trade barriers, and the industry expects some announcements in 2026 regarding this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In investigating truck-rail collisions at railway crossings, the TSB will examine physical and infrastructure issues, environmental and seasonal factors as well as human factors and driver behaviour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCTA will be interested in reading this report, particularly around the human factors that may have led to this event. We encourage the TSB to reach out to safety experts in the industry and through associations during this investigation to further inform their findings. There could be more industry and governments can learn from, examine and implement as effective solutions to ensure collisions like this are mitigated to the greatest extent possible,\u201d said Laskowski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) and the CN Police Service are investigating a truck-train collision earlier this week in Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska, Que. Which involved two transport trucks. 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