{"id":62949,"date":"2026-03-10T19:18:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=62949"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T22:18:37","slug":"man-uninjured-after-tractor-train-collision-faces-charges-of-impaired-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=62949","title":{"rendered":"Man uninjured after tractor-train collision; faces charges of impaired driving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56514&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ELMSDALE:<\/strong> A 74-year-old man from Enfield faces one count of impaired driving after the tractor he was driving collided with a train last week in Elmsdale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acting Sgt. Evan Collier, with East Hants RCMP, said police responded to the collision between a freight\/gypsum train and Kubota Tractor at the train tracks at Elmsdale Road and Hwy 2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Police arrived on scene and identified the driver of the tractor who had driven through while the signals were activated and the arms had come down to prevent crossing,&#8221; said A\/Sgt. Collier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56376&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56509&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A\/Sgt. Collier said the driver was &#8220;miraculously&#8221; unharmed, but police suspected the driver had consumed alcohol. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They conducted a roadside breath test, which the driver failed.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 74 year old driver from Enfield was arrested for one count of impaired operation of a conveyance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was transported back to the Enfield RCMP Detachment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elmsdale Fire was paged to respond to the scene, but was stood down quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56191&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELMSDALE: A 74-year-old man from Enfield faces one count of impaired driving after the tractor he was driving collided with a train last week in Elmsdale. Acting Sgt. Evan Collier, with East Hants RCMP, said police responded to the collision between a freight\/gypsum train and Kubota Tractor at the train tracks at Elmsdale Road and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[986,9711,52,14,10515],"class_list":["post-62949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-elmsdale","tag-elmsdale-road","tag-impaired-driving","tag-rcmp","tag-train-tractor-collision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}