At least 30 people were reported injured early Tuesday when a Metrolink commuter train collided with a tractor-trailer truck on the tracks in Ventura County, northwest of Los Angeles.
Oxnard police Sgt. Denise Shadinger said the crash was reported at 5:44 a.m. Shadinger said the truck became fully engulfed in flames. Authorities are describing the scene as a multi-casualty incident.#
A Ventura County fire official told Fox News that the driver of the tractor trailer survived the crash and fled the scene. He was apprehended less than a mile from the crash site, the official said.
The collision toppled three passenger cars. A fourth car is derailed but remains upright, along with the engine. The scene is in Oxnard, about 65 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/02/2...r-train-crashes-into-truck-injuries-reported/
commuter train/truck Collison SoCal..trucker flees the scene & is apprehended.
Discussion in 'Trucking Accidents' started by drvrtech77, Feb 24, 2015.
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More information:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-california-trail-derails-30-injured-20150224-story.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rizhwHLNOSQ
http://wreg.com/2015/02/24/at-least-one-dead-many-hurt-in-l-a-train-crash/
It's unclear if it was a tractor-trailer or simply a pickup truck (possibly pulling a trailer). One report indicates it was a "produce truck" driver, which might be a small straight truck. -
From the pics it looks like a service truck of some kind and not a tractor trailer, I'm sure the media would have loved for it to be a semi rig, especially in truck loving Communist State Of California.
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if you look at the youtube video sure looks like a pick up truck to me....upside down.....from the :24 mark on....thats NOT a semi.....
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Yeah it does look like a pick up. Problebly did the same thing these idiots are doing.
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need to use the advanced tab to load a pic....
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Here is a quote from the LA Times article:
The driver of the truck was taken to a hospital and was "extremely cooperative" with investigators, said Lopez. The 54-year-old man was driving an early-2000s-model Ford F-150 pickup pulling a 12-foot trailer.Giggles the Original Thanks this. -
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sure does say that. i didnt read it...i saw the youtube vid and didnt go any farther....thanks !!!!!
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