Rapist crashed car onto railway line after night of boozing before train ploughed into him

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Johnstone, downed two bottles of Buckfast and a bottle of whisky before getting behind the wheel and smashing his car through a fence onto the railway line on August 15.

The tanked up 30-year-old drove straight through the junction of Janefield Avenue and Shanks Crescent, in Johnstone, and onto the tracks, where his white Hyundai was then smashed into by a train driving at 60mph.McElwee caused almost £20,000 damage to the train - which desperately tried to stop before ramming into him as he was unconscious in the driver’s seat - as well as racking up £30,000 of costs due to services being cancelled.A frantic passer-by even tried to remove him from the car, but was forced to leave him as the train was speeding towards them.They then had to.