A man has died after being crushed by a train carrying cane to a sugar factory in north Queensland, just days after a Sydney woman was killed by a train.
Emergency crews were called to Brewers Road, Sarina, 930 kilometres north of Brisbane, on Thursday afternoon after receiving reports of a collision with a pedestrian.
A spokeswoman for Wilmar Sugar and Renewables confirmed there was a fatal incident on a railway bridge “involving one of our locomotives late this afternoon”.
The train came into contact with the man on the Plane Creek Bridge, he said. Daily Mercury.
“We are providing our driver with all possible support,” the spokeswoman said.
Police, firefighters and ambulance crews responded to the scene after Wilmar workers called the emergency services shortly after 5 p.m.
Emergency services were unable to save the man.
Crews reportedly worked for hours to recover his body.
A man has died after being crushed by a sugarcane train in Sarina (pictured), north Queensland.
Senior Sergeant Trevor Robson said it was not initially possible to identify the man.
“This afternoon an unknown male at this time drove under a fully loaded cane train and as a result lost his life,” Senior Sergeant Robson told reporters on Thursday evening.
Police believe there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.
A Queensland Fire and Emergency Services spokesman confirmed that firefighters were called to the scene of the accident by the rail line operator at approximately 5.15pm.
Firefighters left the scene at around 8.10pm, although police were still present.
All night sugarcane trains on the line were stopped.
The death in Sarina was the second fatality on a train this week, after a woman in Punchbowl, south-west of Sydney, was hit by a car on Tuesday afternoon.
The woman, aged around 50, had gone down onto the track to retrieve something she had dropped and was unable to get back up onto the platform.
Emergency crews were called to Brewers Road, Sarina, 930km north of Brisbane, on Thursday afternoon following reports of a collision with a pedestrian. Pictured is a Queensland Ambulance
Emergency services were called to the station and Fire and Rescue NSW crews worked to free the woman from beneath the train.
She was immediately put in an ambulance before being taken to St George’s Hospital, but tragically died on Wednesday morning.
Police spoke to witnesses at the scene and reviewed CCTV as part of their investigations.
The train driver tested negative for alcohol.
