Oxnard, CA – Dozens Hurt When Southern California Train Crashes, Derails (Photos)

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    Firefighters attend to injured passengers at the scene of a Metrolink accident on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015 in Oxnard, Calif. Three cars of a Southern California Metrolink commuter train derailed and tumbled onto their sides after a collision with a truck on tracks in Ventura County northwest of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Johnny Corona)Oxnard, CA – A Southern California commuter train crashed into a truck and derailed early Tuesday, injuring dozens of people.

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    Three cars of the Metrolink train tumbled onto their sides in agricultural country 65 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Metrolink spokesman Scott Johnson told The Associated Press that at least 30 people were injured and no fatalities have been reported at this time.

    Television news helicopters showed several firetrucks surrounding the tracks, running parallel to a road and a field. One toppled car laid with one end on the tracks and another on the street. Another passenger car derailed but didn’t topple, and the locomotive also remained upright.

    Little was left of the truck but scorched and mangled wreckage — some debris was in a nearby intersection and some close to the tracks.

    The crash was reported at 5:44 a.m. as the train headed from Ventura County to Los Angeles, according to police and the regional rail authority website.

    Metrolink trains have been involved in two major disasters in the last decade, among other accidents.

    Twenty-five people were killed on Sept. 12, 2008, when a Metrolink commuter train struck a Union Pacific freight train head-on in the San Fernando Valley community of Chatsworth. More than 100 people were hurt in one of the worst railroad accidents in U.S. history.

    Federal investigators later concluded that the Metrolink engineer had been texting moments before the crash and ran a red light.

    In 2005, 11 people were killed and about 180 were injured when a man who later claimed he was suicidal parked his SUV on tracks in suburban Glendale and fled before an oncoming Metrolink train struck it and derailed, hitting a second Metrolink train.
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