SALT LAKE CITY ( ABC4 ) — A train engineer from Utah was seriously hurt Monday night when a truck slammed into an Amtrak train at a Colorado rail crossing.
The engineer, a 42-year-old from Park City, was airlifted to Intermountain Health Good Samaritan Hospital in Lafayette, Colorado, with life-threatening injuries, the Colorado State Patrol said.
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Three of the 69 passengers on the Amtrak California Zephyr train were also hospitalized, but their injuries were minor, KDVR reported.
The crash happened just after 10:30 p.m. in Keenesburg, roughly 40 miles northeast of Denver. A truck carrying 10,000 gallons of milk blew through a stop sign and slammed into the train, which was bound for Chicago.
The collision knocked the train off its tracks and toppled the locomotive, The Associated Press reported.