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Train crash teenager is recovering

A TEENAGER seriously injured after a train collided with his car at a level crossing is improving in hospital, police said.

Andrew Robertson was airlifted to the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow after the collision at the unmanned Little Genoch level crossing near the village of Dunragit, in Dumfries and Galloway, on Sunday.

The 18-year-old farm worker, from Newton Stewart, was the only person in the vehicle.

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