A girl has suffered what police describe as non-life-threatening and non-life-altering injuries after being struck by a CTrain at Anderson station Friday afternoon. Read More
Shuttle buses picking up passengers Friday afternoon
Shuttle buses picking up passengers Friday afternoon
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A girl has suffered what police describe as non-life-threatening and non-life-altering injuries after being struck by a CTrain at Anderson station Friday afternoon.
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CTrain service at Anderson Station was closed for several hours while officers investigated, Calgary police said in an advisory to media.
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The incident was reported just before 3:30 p.m. and Calgary Transit continued to report the CTrain was not running at Anderson station at 5:30 p.m. As of 5:45 p.m. trains were passing through Anderson station on a single track, but not stopping at the station. At around 8 p.m. regular service at Anderson station resumed.
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Shuttle busses weretaking passengers between Canyon Meadows and Southland stations, creating long line-ups for Friday’s commuters.
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Friday’s incident comes less than a month after an 11-year-old boy was struck by a CTrain at Banff Trail station in northwest Calgary.
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The child suffered a broken leg on April 11 in what officials at the time described as a freak incident, when he used a crosswalk at the station as a train was approaching but the warning systems appeared to have malfunctioned.
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