Man dies after crashing onto railway line [BBC News]





Date: 27/06/2011

A 47-year-old man has died after his car left the road and landed on a railway line in West Dunbartonshire. The man's green Subaru Impreza left the northbound A82, near the Renton sliproad, at about 1800 BST on Sunday.


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A 47-year-old man has died after his car left the road and landed on a railway line in West Dunbartonshire, police confirm.

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