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Engineer has life threatening injuries. Truck driver ran the stop sign. Unclear if the guilty party will be charged
Author: Too much Bourbonnais sauce
Date: 01-31-2024 - 11:55
https://sentinelcolorado.com/metro/amtrak-engineer-badly-injured-when-passenger-train-collides-with-milk-truck-in-keenesburg/
The truck driver, a 31-year-old man from Fort Wainright, Alaska, drove through the crossing, which has a stop sign, and did not yield to the approaching Amtrak train on Monday night, Colorado State Patrol spokesperson Sgt. Troy Kessler said Tuesday. Neither he nor a male passenger were injured, he said.
The engineer, a 42-year-old man from Park City, Utah, was airlifted to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, but Kessler did not have any more information about his condition. Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari said he couldn’t discuss the injured worker’s condition due to privacy reasons.
The crash is still under investigation, but the truck is considered to be at fault, Kessler said. Neither drugs, alcohol nor excessive speed are believed to have played a role in the crash, he said.
This story has been corrected to say that the truck driver is from Fort Wainright, Alaska, not Arkansas.
The truck driver, a 31-year-old man from Fort Wainright, Alaska, drove through the crossing, which has a stop sign, and did not yield to the approaching Amtrak train on Monday night, Colorado State Patrol spokesperson Sgt. Troy Kessler said Tuesday. Neither he nor a male passenger were injured, he said.
The engineer, a 42-year-old man from Park City, Utah, was airlifted to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, but Kessler did not have any more information about his condition. Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari said he couldn’t discuss the injured worker’s condition due to privacy reasons.
The crash is still under investigation, but the truck is considered to be at fault, Kessler said. Neither drugs, alcohol nor excessive speed are believed to have played a role in the crash, he said.
This story has been corrected to say that the truck driver is from Fort Wainright, Alaska, not Arkansas.
