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A driver of car that was struck by a train Thursday in Vancouver walked away from the crash seemingly unscathed.

Emergency crews attended the collision between the Amtrak Cascades passenger train and a Toyota sedan around 11:40 a.m. at a marked crossing on Kaslo Street, west of the Renfrew SkyTrain Station.

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The car was totalled but the driver, the vehicle’s lone occupant, was unhurt, according to eyewitness Jan Stroomenbergh, who helped free the man.

“I got his seatbelt unbuckled, pried the door open and got him out. He’s an older guy, a retired guy like me,” said Stroomenbergh, a train enthusiast who was shopping at a nearby hobby store and was hoping to get a photo of the Amtrak Cascades 519 when the accident occurred.