No injuries were reported as a result of a train and dump truck collision on August 16, 2010, but the wreck displaced 33 passengers aboard the Piedment 75 that left Cary at 12:02 p.m. en route to Charlotte.
Joining Morrisville firefighters and police in the accident investigation are workers with Amtrak's field operations department, Karina Romero, an Amtrak spokeswoman said this afternoon.
"Details of the tractor trailer's movement and placement at the time of the impact are still being investigated," Galloway stated in an afternoon press release.
The accident occurred just before 12:15 p.m. in a railroad crossing at the intersection of McCrimmon Parkway and N.C. 54, a 911 dispatcher reported.
The train sustained considerable damage to its front end as a result of the collision."The train will terminate where it is," Romero said. "The damage is too significant."
The dump truck driver narrowly avoided serious injury, and possibly death, when the cab of the vehicle he was driving separated from the bed when the passenger train collided with the vehicle at the railroad crossing.
"He was able to pull away upon impact," Galloway said. The train did not derail, she added.
The section of track where the wreck occurred is owned by the Norfolk Southern Corporation, Romero said.
-Thomasi McDonald
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