Amtrak’s train, carrying 243 passengers, crashed into a Missouri dump truck on Monday, derailing several cars “with early reports of injuries,” Rail Services said.
According to Amtrak, the train was traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago when it collided with a truck at a public intersection in Mendon, Missouri, about 100 miles northeast of Kansas City, Missouri.
Amtrak said the municipality was responding and deployed its own resources to support it. Details will be provided “as much as possible”.
Calls and emails to authorities in Shariton County, Missouri were not immediately returned.
Photos posted on Twitter The man, who said he was on the train, showed passengers standing on top of a fallen Amtrak car helping each other while walking by the railroad tracks. Another photo shows four large rubber tires on an axle near the truck.
The crash occurred on Sunday in a rural area of East Bay, Northern California, where another Amtrak passenger train crashed into a four-door sedan at an intersection without train traffic lights and guard rails, killing three people and killing children and local fire departments. An ambulance crew spokesman said.
According to Steve Aubert, chief of the East Contra Costa Fire Protection District, the victims of the crash were declared dead on the scene. An Amtrak spokeswoman said in an email that the five-car train was carrying nearly 90 people.