Eight people were killed and two injured when a train smashed into a minibus on a crossing in central Poland on Monday.<br/> <br />The minibus carrying 10 people - eight women and two men - drove onto an unguarded crossing near the city of Lodz.<br/> <br />A local policeman said the force of the collision pushed the bus 30 metres down the track.<br/> <br />A local government official said most of the casualties were probably from neighbouring Ukraine, but their identities were still being checked.<br/> <br />One local resident said that trains had been suspended on that route for several months, and many drivers have grown accustomed to driving through the railway crossing without stopping.<br/> <br />In March, 16 people died and 60 others were injured in Poland when two trains collided head-on.<br/> <br />Travis Brecher, Reuters
