City News Service via Los Angeles Daily News, posted 3/1:
Amtrak train hits vehicle miles from site of derailment in Ventura
By City News Service
An Amtrak train heading toward Los Angeles hit a vehicle in Ventura County Sunday night, just a few miles away from the site of last week’s big derailment, but there were no injuries and the train did not tip over, firefighters said.
The Ventura County Fire Department reported that the crash was at Fifth Street at Pleasant Valley Road, in Camarillo.
The crash was about 8 p.m. and involved Pacific Surfliner train 796 en route to Camarillo, Los Angeles and San Diego, Amtrak spokesman Craig Schulz told City News Service. It originated in Goleta, and had stopped in Santa Barbara and Oxnard.
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That grade crossing is, like the scene of the last crash, surrounded by agricultural fields. It is 3 miles east of the crossing at Rice Avenue in Oxnard, where the Metrolink commuter train hit a truck last Tuesday.
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