At least 15 people are injured after a Brightline train collided with a fire truck in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday morning, according to reports.
The train slammed into a Delray Beach Fire Rescue truck near the intersection of East Atlantic Avenue and SE 1st Avenue in Delray Beach at around 10.45am.
A witness of the accident told BocaNewsNow.com that the fire truck driver drove the vehicle around the lowered railroad crossing gates – seemingly assuming that a freight train, which had just passed through the intersection, was the only train in the area.
The train was heading toward the fire truck, which was reportedly en-route to a call, from the opposite direction just before the collision.
Three firefighters and 12 train passengers are among those who are injured.
According to Matt Saraceni, Sergeant of the Delray Beach Police Traffic Homicide Unit, three Delray Beach firefighters have been hospitalized with injuries but are all in stable condition, Fox 29 News reported.
Two of the firefighters were initially listed in critical condition, but their status has since been updated to stable, ABC News reported.The 12 injured train passengers were also transported to a local hospital with minor injuries.
There