Fiery Collision Metra Passengers Share Details of Crash that Killed Truck Driver in Mt. Prospect
A truck driver was killed and 26 train passengers taken to hospitals after a concrete truck that drove around a railroad crossing gate was hit by an inbound train in Mount Prospect Friday morning.
Lingaiah said he boarded the train in Mount Prospect minutes before the crash and was sitting on the upper level of the first passenger car when the collision occurred.
He said the first level of the train quickly filled with fire.
"All were screaming as people were (running) in between the fire," he said.
* Daily Herald staff writers Lee Filas, Deborah Donovan, Kerry Lester, Marni Pyke and Ashok Selvam contributed to this report.
Fiery: 'It sounded like a bomb going off'
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