Driver escapes freeway crash

BRIDGET LACY

Updated 21 June 2011 at 5:25 pm

The car that ended on train tracks last night. Picture: Ben Crabtree

A man was lucky to escape without serious injury after he rolled his car onto the railway track on the Mitchell Freeway just south of the Hutton Street exit in Osborne Park last night.

Police say the man lost control of his car and rolled onto the track just after 9pm.

Transperth were forced to stop trains running north and south on the Joondalup line for more than an hour while the emergency services removed the car, which had landed between the two sets of tracks.

St John Ambulance took the driver to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital with minor injuries.

Police will investigate the cause of the crash.

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