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#1 CNJRoss

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Posted 02 March 2015 - 09:13 AM

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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Posted 02 March 2015 - 09:16 AM

Los Angeles Times, posted 3/1:
 

Amtrak train strikes car in Camarillo; no serious injuries reported

 

An Amtrak train bound for Los Angeles on Sunday night struck a car that had been left on the tracks in an agricultural area just outside Camarillo, officials said.

The crash occurred about 8 p.m. at the intersection of 5th Street and Pleasant Valley Road, less than a mile from the Camarillo Metrolink station, said Mike Lindbery, a spokesman for the Ventura County Fire Department.

 

There were 85 people on board the train, including employees, Lindbery said. Two people were in the car, but both jumped out before impact. No one involved in the crash was seriously injured.

 

"At this point, we have no idea why they were stuck there," Lindbery said. "We don't know what the mechanism was, or whether this was an accident.

 

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