15 hurt in Florida after passenger train collides with fire truck
Associated PressThree firefighters and a dozen passengers were injured in Florida on Saturday when a fire truck with its lights flashing drove around rail crossing arms and into the path of a high-speed passenger train after waiting for another train to pass, according to video of the incident and a person briefed on what happened. In the aftermath the Brightline train was stopped on the tracks, its front destroyed, about a block away from the Delray Beach Fire Rescue truck. The person familiar with the details of the crash, who was not authorized to disclose what happened because of the ongoing investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity, said the fire truck stopped at the crossing and waited for a freight train to go by before maneuvering around the lowered crossing arms. AP AUDIO: 15 hurt in Florida when train hits fire truck that drove onto tracks after another train passed AP correspondent Julie Walker reports on the investigation into Saturday’s train-versus-fire truck accident in Florida.
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