Train strikes crashed car at Deroche rail crossing<\/p>\n
Published 9:34 am Monday, July 13, 2026<\/p>\n
No one was injured after a train struck a crashed car at a rail crossing in Deroche on Sunday (July 12).<\/p>\n
According to a news release from Mission RCMP, a witness called 911 at approximately 4 p.m. to report the initial crash at the Lougheed Highway and North Deroche Road crossing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe car reportedly took the corner too fast, and collided with a train signal pole,\u201d RCMP said.<\/p>\n
Two 18-year-olds \u2014 the driver and passenger \u2014 were uninjured and exited the vehicle. A freight train then came though the crossing and struck the car just over a minute into the 911 call.<\/p>\n
The train stopped, fully blocking the crossing until the wreckage was removed and the train was deemed safe to continue operating.<\/p>\n
The collision also closed Lougheed Highway in Deroche for several hours on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n
Mission RCMP reminded the public to immediately exit and move away from any vehicle that becomes stuck at a rail crossing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Train strikes crashed car at Deroche rail crossing Published 9:34 am Monday, July 13, 2026 No one was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-799651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}