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Truck driver fined in worker's death

A truck driver whose vehicle collided with a train and killed a person was fined 330,000 yuan ($53,200) in a trial on Saturday. The driver, surnamed Liu, was driving a company-owned truck from Tianjin to Beijing when he drove through a railway crossing despite the no-crossing warning, colliding with a passing train. One railway crossing guard died and another was severely injured.