Via Rail train strikes vehicle near Ottawa station; woman hospitalized

On a Sunday afternoon in Ottawa, a passenger train and a private vehicle met at a crossing near Fallowfield Station — a collision that reminds us how the boundaries between our different modes of moving through the world can, in a moment, become dangerously thin. A woman in her 40s was pulled from the wreckage and carried to hospital with injuries that, mercifully, were not fatal. The signals had done their duty; the question of why the crossing was entered regardless now falls to investigators, as it always must when the systems we trust hold and yet harm still arrives.