A video showing the incredibly violent collision between an Amtrak train and a car hauler has emerged online. Fortunately, no one was killed and all injuries were described as non-critical.
The accident happened last week in Love County, in the southern part of Oklahoma, when a car hauler became high-centered on train tracks at a level crossing, leaving it no means of getting out of the way of a train barreling towards it, according to the Fire Department Love County.
“The driver of the truck was not injured however five passengers from the train were transported by ambulance to hospitals with non-critical injuries,” the fire department wrote in a Facebook post. “The front of the train locomotive derailed, causing slight damage to parts of the rail bed and prevented the train from being moved.”
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The local sheriff’s office, meanwhile, described the train passengers as “shaken up,” but confirmed that everyone is alive.
First responders were on the scene for more than five and a half hours. While some passengers were able to be picked up by family or friends to get home, others were provided with accommodations for the night and were taken to nearby hotels by charter buses organized by Amtrak.
Amazingly, the fire department reports that once the locomotive at the front of the train was uncoupled, the rest of it was able to be transported to Fort Worth with the locomotive at the rear of the train.