Train ploughs into stolen car

Police are making inquiries this morning into an early morning collision between a stolen car and a multiple-wagon train passing through a crossing. The train was left halted on the tracks until it was slowly driven away shortly before 8am, following which the car was winched onto the back of a truck. A short time later, police said they were alerted to the crash on Lincoln Rd, where the train had smashed into the car on the tracks. Within 20 minutes of the car being moved, a passenger train passed through the tracks and the crossings were working as per normal. He told the Herald the car involved had driven under the barriers which, at the time, were down signalling a train was coming.