A teenaged boy is due to appear in a children's court today charged after a passenger train hit a trailer on railway tracks in Sydney's north-west last week.
Emergency services were called to Level Crossing Road at Vineyard, south of Windsor, about 5am last Thursday (25 January 2024), after a citybound train struck a trailer.
Twenty-nine passengers on the train at the time escaped injury; the driver was checked by NSW Ambulance paramedics as a precaution.
Following inquiries by detectives attached to Hawkesbury Police Area Command, a 16-year-old boy was arrested at Penrith Police Station about 4pm yesterday (Monday 29 January 2024).
He has now been charged with 13 offences,
• Do act with intent to kill or injure person on railway
• Possess prohibited drug (methyl amphetamine)
• Possession of equipment for administering prohibited drugs
• Recklessly deal with proceeds of crime
• Goods in personal custody suspected being stolen
• Drive motor vehicle during disqualification period (three counts)
• Larceny (two counts), and
• Steal motor vehicle (three counts).
He was refused bail to appear in a children's court later today (Tuesday 30 January 2024).
