TRUCK DRIVER SURVIVES CRASH.Byline: CHARLES F. BOSTWICK Staff Writer LANCASTER -- A truck driver and 300 Metrolink passengers escaped injury Tuesday morning when a train slammed into a forklift on the rear of the truck driver's flatbed trailer. The impact shoved the forklift into a crossing signal and bent the trailer, closing Avenue M at Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling to traffic for more than three hours while authorities tried to get the wreckage wreck·age n. 1. The act of wrecking or the state of being wrecked. 2. Something wrecked. 3. The debris of something wrecked. cleared. ``The driver of that truck joins a very special fraternity of people who have walked away after being struck by a train,'' Metrolink spokeswoman Denise Tyrrell said. The southbound south·bound adj. Going toward the south. southbound Adjective going towards the south Adj. 1. No. 208 train, which had left the Lancaster station at 6:55 a.m., was held up for about 45 minutes after the incident, which happened just after 7 a.m., deputies said. It was not badly damaged, deputies said. The truck driver, hauling grass sod for Tehachapi Turf, told deputies the warning signals activated activated a state of being more than usually active. In biological systems this is usually brought about by chemical or electrical means. Commonly said of pharmaceutical and chemical products. as he was crossing the tracks, Deputy Dennis Campbell said. The truck driver said he had to stop because of traffic going by on Sierra Highway, and a descending descending /des·cend·ing/ (de-send´ing) extending inferiorly. crossing arm caught the forklift at the rear of his trailer, Campbell said. The truck driver was trying to get the forklift off the tracks when the train hit it, Campbell said. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2 -- color) A Metrolink train, above, passes the wreckage of a forklift and flatbed truck A flatbed truck is a type of truck which can be either articulated or rigid. It has an entirely flat, level body with absolutely no sides or roof. This allows for quick and easy loading of goods, and consequently they are used to transport heavy loads that are not delicate or hit by an earlier train Tuesday morning at Avenue M and Sierra Highway. Below, a sheriff's deputy examines the forklift. Charles F. Bostwick/Daily News |
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