Vic: Police speak to owner of car hit by train

AAP General News (Australia)
02-11-2008
Vic: Police speak to owner of car hit by train

MELBOURNE, Feb 11 AAP - Police are investigating circumstances surrounding an accident
in which an abandoned car was hit by a freight train on a lonely back road west of Melbourne
early today.

Police said no-one was injured in the collision and the male motorist had spoken to
police after they had planned to search for him using a police dog this morning.

The spokeswoman said the man had suffered minor injuries after his car ran off the
road at Ingliston, between the towns of Ballan and Bacchus Marsh, about 70km west of Melbourne
about 1.35am (AEST).

"He wasn't in the car at the time when it was hit by the train," she said.

"It had become stuck next to the train track.

"Police plan to interview him."

The only two people aboard the train, the driver and a workmate, were not injured when
it struck the car, which police believe was parked parallel to the line, near the intersection
of Ironbark and Ingliston roads.

The roads meet beside the main rail line between Melbourne and Ballarat, Victoria's
third largest city, near the Werribee Gorge State Park.

There was blood both in the car and on the locomotive.

The train suffered minimal damage in the incident.

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