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Sam McKeith

BIZARRE: Emergency call not heeded before major train derailment - What They Never Told You

Four people were injured when a train hit a van at Kembla Grange, near Wollongong, in October 2021. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

A probe into a major train derailment caused by a thief's van that was stranded on the tracks has found calls alerting authorities minutes before the smash were not treated as an emergency.

Four people were injured - one seriously - in the derailment, when a passenger train on the NSW south coast line hit the van at Kembla Grange, near Wollongong, early on October 20, 2021.

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