A 15-year-old girl is in hospital with life-threatening injuries while her teenaged friend was seriously injured when they fell from a moving train in Mississauga Sunday, March 18.

The incident occurred around 2 a.m. near the railway crossing on Wolfedale Road, south of Central Parkway and involved a moving Canadian Pacific freight train.

The girls sneaked onto the train on Howland Avenue in Toronto and "they were hanging off the side" when they fell off, said to Peel police Const. Harinder Sohi.

Peel paramedics rushed the 15-year-old to a Toronto trauma centre with life-threatening injuries. Police say she was hit by another freight train after she fell. Her friend, 16, suffered serious injuries that aren’t considered life-threatening.