Red Deer RCMP promote railway safety with Operation Life Saver
Red Deer RCMP are impressing upon people to be safer around railway crossings.
Recently, members of the detachment’s traffic services and downtown patrol units, as well as peace officers, took part in Operation Life Saver at the Hwy 11A rail crossing.
More than 2,100 North Americans are killed or seriously injured each year as a result of collisions at rail crossings and trespassing on railway property, RCMP note.
“You are 30 times more likely to be killed in a collision with a train than in any other motor vehicle [collision],” says Sgt. Brian Herrick with Red Deer RCMP Traffic Services.