California train crash: Dozens hurt after Metrolink train derails in Oxnard after hitting 18-wheeler
Commuter train was heading toward Los Angeles on Tuesday morning
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Your support makes all the difference.At least 30 people were hurt and one possibly killed on Tuesday morning when a Metrolink commuter train struck a tractor-trailer truck that was on the track in Oxnard, California, causing at least three train cars to derail.
The VC Line 102 train was heading southbound toward Los Angeles and hit the truck around 5:45 am Pacific Time, according to reports on the accident.
“For some reason there was a tractor trailer on the tracks there at Rice Avenue and Train 102 collided with it,” Scott Johnson of Metrolink told the CBS affiliate in Los Angeles.
Metrolink reported that at least 30 people were injured and some outlets have reported that one person died, though that has not been confirmed.
Reports from the scene describe emergency personnel covering casualties in tarps while they received treatment. Others are being stretchered to ambulances to be taken to the hospital.
In 2008, a Metrolink commuter train hit a Union Pacific freight train on a shared track killing 25 people and injuring others, the Los Angeles Times reported.
This story will be updated when more information becomes available.
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