PHOTOS: One person was injured late Sunday night after a truck drove over an embankment and onto railroad tracks in Preston County.
According to a Facebook post from the Tunnelton Volunteer Fire Department, on the night of Oct. 19, emergency crews responded to the railroad tracks near the area of Number 4 Hill after a pickup truck went over a 30-foot embankment and crashed into the tracks.
Fire crews said the person in the truck was injured but was able to get out of the vehicle and crawl away from the tracks. A few minutes later, a loaded coal train came out of a nearby tunnel and struck the wrecked truck that was still on the tracks.
The post said fire crews helped the person in the truck get up the embankment and into a KAMP ambulance. There is no word on the extent of that personโs injuries.
The Tunnelton Volunteer Fire Department was assisted by KAMP Ambulance, the Preston County Sheriffโs Department and Rankins Towing, which removed the vehicle from the tracks.
