The Board has made three recommendations to address the outstanding safety deficiencies. Section 4 lists the safety action taken by the industry and Transport Canada. The Board has identified safety deficiencies relating to the level of defences associated with the Occupancy Control System method of train control, particularly in "dark territory," where trains are not always provided with sufficient advance warning of reversed main track switches, and to the storage of dangerous goods in rail cars for prolonged periods of time at locations adjacent to main tracks. Section 3 of this report contains the Board's findings. The locomotive was damaged beyond repair and the leading two passenger cars sustained substantial damage. Approximately 50 m of main track and 100 m of the adjacent yard track were destroyed. Numerous others received first aid on site. Four people were admitted with serious injuries. Seventy-seven of the 186 passengers and crew on board were treated at hospital. The two train crew members in the locomotive cab were fatally injured. All four passenger cars and the locomotive of the passenger train derailed as well as four of the stationary cars on the adjacent yard track. The three cars that were struck were loaded with ammonium nitrate. The derailed train collided with stationary rail cars on an adjacent yard track. 74, travelling eastward on the north main track of the Canadian National Chatham Subdivision, at Thamesville, Ontario, encountered a reversed switch, crossed over to the south main track and derailed at Mile 46.7. On 23 April 1999, at approximately 1200 eastern daylight time, VIA Rail Canada Inc.
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