DELRAY BEACH, Florida (AP) A high-speed passenger train crashed with a fire vehicle at a crossing in Florida on Saturday morning, hurting three firefighters and at least a dozen passengers, according to police. Multiple news agencies stated that the crash occurred around 10:45 a.m. in the bustling downtown Delray Beach. The Brightline train was stopped on the tracks about a block away from the Delray Beach Fire Rescue vehicle, with its front end smashed and its ladder ripped off and thrown in the grass several yards away, according to The Sun-Sentinel. According to a social media post from Delray Beach Fire Rescue, three firefighters are in stable condition at a hospital. Palm Beach County Fire Rescue transported 12 passengers from the train to the hospital with minor injuries.

Back Logo: The Washington Times. Sign in Subscribe Newsletter signup Gift subscriptions Custain collided with Train  collides with fire truck in Florida, 3 firefighters and at least 12 passengers harmed A damaged fire vehicle is on its side after colliding with a train in downtown Delray Beach, Fla., Saturday, Dec. 28, 2024. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via Associated Press) The Associated Press reported on a damaged fire truck. Saturday, December 28, 2024 DELRAY BEACH, Florida (AP) A high-speed passenger train crashed with a fire vehicle at a crossing in Florida on Saturday morning, hurting three firefighters and at least a dozen passengers, according to police. Multiple news agencies stated that the crash occurred around 10:45 a.m. in the bustling downtown Delray Beach.

Emmanuel Amaral rushed to the scene on his golf cart after hearing a loud crash and screeching train brakes while having breakfast a few blocks away. He witnessed firefighters climbing out of the window of their damaged truck and dragging injured colleagues away from the tracks. One of their helmets came to rest several hundred feet away from the crash. “The front of that train is completely smashed, and there was even some of the parts to the fire truck stuck in the front of the train, but it split the car right in half. “It split the fire truck in half, and debris was everywhere,” Amaral explained.

Brightline officials did not immediately respond to the crash. A spokeswoman for the National Transportation Safety Board stated that the agency was still gathering information about the collision and had not yet determined whether to investigate.

The NTSB is already looking into two collisions involving Brightline’s high-speed trains that killed three people earlier this year at the same crossing on the railroad’s route between Miami and Orlando. Since Brightline began operations in July 2017, more than 100 people have died as a result of train collisions, making it the nation’s deadliest railroad. However, the majority of those deaths have been suicides, individuals attempting to run over the tracks ahead of a train, or drivers who bypassed crossing gates rather than waiting for a train to pass. Brightline was not determined to be at fault in the earlier deaths. In February, a Norfolk Southern train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, raising concerns about railroad safety .

Earlier this month, two Union Pacific train workers were killed when their train collided with a semitrailer truck blocking a crossing in Pecos, a small West Texas town. Three further individuals were hurt, and the local Chamber of Commerce building was damaged.