On 14 July 2025, at about 08:09 Eastern Daylight Time, a Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CPKC) intermodal freight train travelling west at 56 mph on the Belleville Subdivision struck a southbound pickup truck as it was traversing the Hunt Road public grade crossing (Mile 115.64) in Cramahe, a rural township in southern Ontario. The crossing was equipped with a standard crossing sign and a stop sign.
February 27, 2024
Director General, Rail Safety, Transport Canada
Enterprise Building, 14th floor
427 Laurier Avenue West
Ottawa ON K1A 0N5
December 22, 2023
Director General, Rail Safety
Transport Canada
Enterprise Building, 14th floor
427 Laurier Avenue West
Ottawa ON K1A 0N5
On November 21, 2023, a Canadian National Railway (CN) train and an exo commuter train collided at the St-Léonard-Montréal-Nord station in Montréal, Quebec. The investigation found that the CN train crew had passed a Restricting signal requiring them to limit their speed and be prepared to stop. However, believing the track ahead was clear, the train accelerated. By the time the stationary commuter train became visible, it was too late to avoid the collision and subsequent derailment.
Investigations conducted by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) are complex since an accident rarely results from a single cause. In the case of the November 2023 train collision in Montréal, several factors led to the accident. The five findings below detail the causes and contributing factors that led to this occurrence. Additionally, the TSB made two findings as to risk and 3 other findings.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) will hold a news conference to release its investigation report (R23D0108) into the 2023 main-track collision and derailment involving a Canadian National Railway Company freight train and a Réseau de transport métropolitain (exo) commuter train, in Montréal, Quebec.
