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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/24/us-usa-train-crash- idUSKBN0LS1MT20150224

(Reuters) - A Los Angeles-bound commuter train slammed into a tractor
trailer stopped on the tracks in Oxnard, California during the morning
rush hour on Tuesday, injuring 51 people, several critically, authorities
said.

The truck driver fled on foot following the crash and was taken into
custody several miles away, Oxnard City Fire Department spokesman Joe
Garces said. Garces said it was not yet clear if the driver would face
charges.

The fiery collision just before 6 a.m. PST (1400 GMT) in Ventura County, northwest of Los Angeles, overturned three double-decker Metrolink rail
cars. Two others derailed but remained upright.


Authorities said the train, which had been traveling at 79 miles per hour,
had used an emergency braking system before hitting the truck.

The force of the impact smashed the truck apart and television images
showed burned-out chunks smoldering hours later.

National Transportation Safety Board Member Robert Sumwalt told reporters investigators would examine the train's recorders and seek to determine if crossing arms and bells were functioning properly.

"We are concerned with grade crossing accidents. We intend to use this
accident and others to learn from it so that we can keep it from happening again," Sumwalt said.

The collision took place where the Metrolink tracks cross busy Rice Avenue
in Oxnard, a street used by a steady stream of big rigs and farm trucks
and lined with warehouses as well as stretches of farmland.

"It is a very dangerous crossing," said Rafael Lemus, who works down the
street from the crash. "The lights come on too late before the trains
come. It is not safe."

TRAIN'S DRIVER CRITICAL

There were no fatalities but 28 people were taken to six hospitals, some
with significant head, neck and back traumas or broken bones, Emergency
Medical Services administrator Steve Carroll told reporters. Another 23
people were treated at the scene, he said.

A spokeswoman for Ventura County Medical Center said the hospital had
received nine train passengers and that three were listed in critical condition. Hospital spokesman Bryan Wong said the train's driver was among
the critically injured.

Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center received six patients with minor
injuries such as back, leg or shoulder pain, said spokeswoman Kris
Carraway.

St. John's Pleasant Valley Hospital in nearby Camarillo was treating two patients for minor injuries, a spokeswoman said.

The incident caused significant delays to Metrolink lines in Ventura
County, forcing commuters onto buses. Oxnard is an affluent coastal city
of some 200,000 about 45 miles northwest of Los Angeles.

The crash came three weeks after a Metro-North commuter train struck a car
at a railroad crossing just outside New York City and derailed in a fiery accident that killed six people in the areaAs worst rail crash in decades.

In 2008, a crowded Metrolink commuter train plowed into a Union Pacific locomotive in Chatsworth, California, killing 25 people and injuring 135
in an accident officials blamed on the commuter train engineerAs failure
to stop at a red light.

In 2005 a Metrolink train struck a sport utility vehicle parked on the
tracks in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, killing 11 people and
injuring 180.

(Reporting by Michael Fleeman in Oxnard, Laila Kearney, Barbara Goldberg
and James Dalgleish in New York, Rory Carroll in San Francisco, Eric
Johnson in Seattle and Eric Kelsey and Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles;
Writing by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe, Bill Trott and James Dalgleish)



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