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Train-van collision kills boy, 7, and sister, 11
REGINA -- An Alberta brother and sister who were among four people killed in a collision between a train and a camper van are being remembered fondly by their grandfather.
The seven-year-old boy and his 11-year-old sister from Turner Valley, Alta., were killed in a crash Thursday evening at an uncontrolled railway crossing near Broadview, Sask., about 150 kilometres east of Regina.
Police didn't release their names, but Glen Morrison said his grandson, Roy, and granddaughter, Bailey, were killed.
"This thing hasn't hardly hit us yet," Morrison told The Canadian Press in a phone interview from High River, Alta.
"We've had some family in, and friends, and we can't realize that this has happened. Probably about the middle of the night or tomorrow some time it'll hit us that this is a fact."
He said Roy "was just a real vibrant boy" and Bailey was "a young, fine-looking girl, musical and very artistic."
Morrison said his son Brian, the children's father, died a few years ago.
The children's mother, Vicki, was a passenger in the van and was injured in the crash. Her 15-year-old son, Luke, was driving and was seriously injured.
An 11-year-old girl from Chestermere, Alta., and an 18-year-old woman from the Whitewood district in Saskatchewan were also killed. They were not related to the others in the van nor to each other, according to RCMP.
RCMP said Friday it's too soon to know what caused the collision.
Cpl. Rob King said the teen driver had a valid learner's permit. King was reluctant to blame the crash on age.
"We've had lots of people get struck by trains or run into trains from a variety of ages, so to blame age or driver inexperience in this incident is premature," he said Friday.
-- The Canadian Press
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition August 11, 2012 A16
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