AMTRAK TRAIN COLLISION WITH SEMITRAILER TRUCK INJURES 14 IN INDIANA (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Tuesday, October 28, 2014, 12:31

The new Amtrak Cities Sprinter Locomotives built by Siemens Rails Systems in Sacramento, California. Photograph: Rich Pedroncelli/AP

An Amtrak train traveling from Indianapolis to Chicago collided on Tuesday with a semi-truck in its path along north-western Indiana rail tracks, injuring at 14 people aboard the train, police said.

White County sheriff Pat Shafer said 14 people complaining of pain were taken to local hospitals after the collision. The truck driver was not among the injured, he said.

Shafer said the collision occurred about 8.20am when the northbound train struck a semi-truck that had crossed onto rail tracks running adjacent to US 421. He said the train split the truck in half but its driver was not injured. He said it’s unclear why the truck was on the rural tracks about 25 miles north of Lafayette.

“The collision ripped the truck in half,” Shafer told the Associated Press.

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