Metrolink train crash: Train's camera captured video of truck crash - 89.3 KPCC
Passengers wait to board a Metrolink train as Southern California rail operations return to normal at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles Wednesday, Feb. Transit officials have reopened a section of track closed when a Southern California commuter train smashed into a pickup truck and derailed, injuring dozens Tuesday in Oxnard, Calif. (AP Photo/Nick Ut). The lawyer for a pickup truck driver who left his vehicle on train tracks, leading to a collision that sent 28 people to the hospital, says the driver did all he could to get the truck off the tracks. A life-saving design used on the train involved in Tuesday's crash may have helped save lives. Updates 6 p. m. Metrolink train's camera captured video of crash with pickup 5 p. m. Truck's driver tried repeatedly to get off train tracks, lawyer says 1:06 p. m. Life-saving train design is rarely used 11:03 a. m. Track reopened near crash... Sumwalt also said that while the truck wasn't stuck or bottomed out at the grade crossing as often happens to vehicles,. Source: www.scpr.org
