28 Feb 2014

Truck driver hit by train named

4:15 pm on 28 February 2014

Police have named the man who died when his truck was hit by a train in Waikato on Thursday.

Cory James Clements, who was 28, was the only person in the truck when it collided with a passenger train near Rangiriri.

None of the 108 passengers on board the train was injured.

Police say it will take several weeks to investigate the crash.