Pickup hit by train strikes woman floating on raft in Delta waterway; 2 injured
An investigator takes pictures of a mangled truck as it lies in the water after colliding with a train in Northern California on Thursday. Authorities say a woman floating on a Delta canal was seriously hurt when an Amtrak train struck the pickup and knocked it into the water.
Two people were hospitalized after a pickup truck was struck by a train and went into a Northern California waterway, striking a woman floating on a raft.
A pickup truck was on an Amtrak train crossing when it was struck by the train around 2:45 p.m. Thursday in Contra Costa County. The truck and the jet ski it was pulling on a trailer careened into a Delta canal, where it hit the woman on the raft, said Lena Kent, a spokeswoman for BNSF Railway, which is investigating the crash.
The train operates between Bakersfield and Oakland, Amtrak spokeswoman Vernae Graham said. None of the passengers or crew members was injured, she said.
The truck driver, a man, and the woman on the raft were airlifted to a hospital, Kent said.
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