Drunk driver’s car destroyed by train in Kamloops

A woman failed a breath test in Kamloops this weekend, but not before the car she was driving was destroyed by a train.

The drunk driver was no longer in the car when the train came and was with a person who had stopped to help her, according to a Kamloops RCMP news release.

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Police were called to the Dallas Road area around 3:20 a.m., March 5, where a car was in the ditch and stuck on train tracks. The train passed through shortly after the call, destroying the stuck vehicle.

An officer conducted a roadside breath test where the woman failed, with a blood alcohol content exceeding .08, RCMP said.

Her license was then prohibited for 90 days.

The car would typically have been impounded, had it not been struck by the passing train.

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