As Discover Weyburn shared with you on Wednesday, Weyburn's Sandra LaRose was in Kamloops for a National Rail Safety Week event Monday, during which she was featured in one of the videos launched as part of the 'Stop Track Tragedies' campaign.

"The Stop Track Tragedies campaign involves telling the personal stories of people who've been affected by railway crossing and trespassing incidents," explained Sarah Mayes, National Director of Operation Lifesaver Canada. "So Sandra LaRose tragically lost her daughter Kailynn to a rail crossing incident last August, and she very kindly agreed to share her story as part of the Stop Track Tragedies campaign."

"We have been rolling out those videos across Canada, actually across North America, because our partner organization in the US has also produced some videos along a similar vein, and we've been promoting those and they've really been resonating on social media. It's the second year that we've done the campaign. We launched the first group of videos last year and they were very well-received as well," she said.

Mayes said the stories in the videos serve to help others learn about rail safety... lessons Sandra's daughter Kailynn didn't have the chance to learn.

"It may have been that Kailynn saw the train moving, but didn't realize how quickly it was actually coming towards her and thought perhaps that she could get across the tracks," she shared. "I mean, obviously that's speculation, but it's a possibility. We have seen that in some other incidents that have happened."

Mayes explained some of the reasons track tragedies can occur.

"They move much more quickly than I think people realize," she noted. "There's an optical illusion, actually, it's kind of similar to when a plane takes off, because it's such a large object, it appears to be moving much more slowly than it is, and something similar happens with trains. And also people expect that they'll necessarily hear a train coming, often they're very quiet and they can actually sneak up on you.

View the videos HERE: