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Man drives car into moving train at Saskatoon rail crossing

Police are trying to determine why a man drove his car into a moving freight train at a Saskatoon rail crossing. Brice Perkins / Global News

A man was taken to a Saskatoon hospital with head injuries after the car he was driving hit a Canadian Pacific freight train at a rail crossing on the city’s south side.

It happened at around 10:00 p.m. CT on Tuesday at the crossing at Avenue W South and Appleby Drive.

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Police said the 42-year-old man had stopped for the train and then for unknown reasons, drove into the train has it passed in front of him.

He suffered minor head injuries.

The car was extensively damaged.

Police continue to investigate.

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