One person was killed and 18 rail tanks went off rails after a motor car rammed a freight train in the Leningrad region, a spokesman for the Russian Railways company told Itar-Tass on Monday. The accident took place at about 14:10 Moscow time near the station Voiskovitsy in Gatchina district. The driver of a VAZ-2110 car ignored traffic lights at a railway crossing and rammed central sections of the train. The car driver died instantly. An investigation is underway.