A Brightline high-speed passenger prepare collided with a hearth truck in Delray Seashore, Fla., on Saturday, sending three firefighters to a hospital the place they had been listed in steady situation. File Picture by Brightline/Wikimedia Commons
Dec. 28 (UPI) — Fifteen folks, together with three firefighters, had been injured Saturday when a hearth truck collided with a passenger prepare Delray Seashore, Fla., officers mentioned.
A Brightline intercity high-speed prepare caught a ladder truck pushed by Delray Seashore Hearth Rescue at 10:45 a.m. within the Atlantic Coast metropolis about 55 miles north of Miami, in accordance with a press release from the town.
Three Delray Seashore firefighters had been hospitalized and had been listed in steady situation.
Twelve folks aboard the prepare had been taken to a hospital with minor accidents by Palm Seashore County Hearth Rescue personnel.
The town mentioned an “energetic investigation” into the reason for the collision is underway by the Delray Seashore Police Division, officers from Brightline, and the Nationwide Transportation Security Board.
Shortly after the accident, Brightline posted that the prepare system was “at present experiencing restricted delays.”
Preliminary pictures and social media posts from the scene confirmed intensive harm to the prepare’s engine and a ladder truck overturned on the tracks.
