TSB investigating after 2 CN trains crash in Alberta Sunday morning

CBC News

· Posted: May 18, 2025 3:57 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is sending investigators to Edson. Alta., aft 2 trains crashed into each different and derailed Sunday morning.

Two Canadian National Railway (CN) trains — 1 carrying grain, different transporting batteries — travelling astatine "low speed" sideswiped astir 7 a.m. MT, causing several grain cars to derail, according to spokespeople from CN and the Alberta RCMP.

An RCMP spokesperson said police got a telephone astir 7:15 a.m. astir the crash, which occurred near Highway 47 and Township Road 530, southwest of Edson — astir 195 kilometres westbound of Edmonton.

No injuries were reported and determination are nary biology concerns arsenic a effect of the crash, according to the RCMP. The CN spokesperson said nary hazardous materials were involved, and nary fires ignited arsenic a effect of the crash.

The CN Police Service — which has law enforcement authorization on, oregon wrong 500 metres of CN property — has since taken implicit the investigation, the RCMP spokesperson said.

The tracks stay closed, the CN spokesperson said, and CN crews and section archetypal responders are inactive connected scene.

Meanwhile, the TSB is deploying a "team of investigators" to the country to "gather accusation and assess" the incident, according to a quality merchandise the bureau issued Sunday. A spokesperson told CBC News the only details the bureau could stock were successful the release.

The TSB, an autarkic national agency, investigates air, marine, pipeline and obstruction proscription incidents to amended proscription safety. It does not delegate fault, nor find liability.

The origin of the collision is inactive nether investigation, the CN spokesperson said.

The institution volition merchandise much accusation erstwhile it becomes available, it added.