<p>An investigation by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau has found that a truck which collided with a freight train, killing the truck driver, was not being driven in accordance with the conditions of reduced visibility that existed at the time.</p> <p>The truck driver may have been experiencing a degree of fatigue that could have affected his driving performance, the bureau said.</p> <p>The investigation also found that the level crossing approach signage and sighting distances were not in accordance with the relevant standards. </p> <p>On the morning of May 25 last year, a Kenworth rigid tipper truck and its quad-axle tipper, loaded with 30 tonnes of citrus pulp, collided with the second locomotive of a freight train at the Lismore Skipton Road level crossing, Lismore, Victoria..</p> <p>As a result of the collision, the second and third locomotives and 41 of the train’s 64 wagons were derailed. </p> <br />
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