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   http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/24/us-usa-train-crash-   
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   (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 area’s 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 engineer’s 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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