VIA Rail Passenger Injury Investigation Report for 2019 Quebec Incident

Rail transportation safety investigation report R19Q0092 details a passenger injury incident involving VIA Rail Canada Inc. train VIA 600. The report covers the event occurring on 28 May 2019 at Mile 199.24 of the Canadian National Railway Company Lac St-Jean Subdivision in Jonquière, Quebec. It is authored by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.

Use Cases

• Analyze passenger injury circumstances using details on train operator, location, and date from the report narrative.
• Extract structured facts about the incident location (Mile 199.24, Lac St-Jean Subdivision) and involved entities (VIA Rail Canada Inc., Canadian National Railway Company) for safety trend analysis.
• Use the event date (28 May 2019) and geographic details (Jonquière, Quebec) to contextualize this case within regional or temporal safety datasets.

Strengths

• Official report from the authoritative Transportation Safety Board of Canada.
• Provides specific temporal (28 May 2019) and geographic (Jonquière, Quebec, Mile 199.24) details for precise incident location.

Limitations

• Single incident report; not a dataset with multiple rows for statistical analysis.
• Data is presented in HTML narrative format, requiring manual or NLP extraction for structured analysis.

Provenance

Source

Transportation Safety Board of Canada | Bureau de la sécurité des transports du Canada

Collection Method

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Time Range

28 May 2019

Freshness

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Geography

Jonquière, Quebec, Canada; Canadian National Railway Company Lac St-Jean Subdivision, Mile 199.24