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Metrolink train, vehicle collide in Lancaster

by The AV Times Staff • March 7, 2022 12 Comments

[Image by BRYAN HALL]
LANCASTER – A Metrolink train and a vehicle collided Monday morning in Lancaster, leaving one person in the vehicle injured, authorities said.

Train Number 212 was en route from Lancaster to Los Angeles when it struck the vehicle near Columbia Way and North Sierra Highway, according to Gina Mack of Metrolink. No injuries were reported on the train.

The train stopped and the tracks were closed. Arrangements were being made to accommodate the rail passengers, Mack said. It was not immediately clear what led to the collision.

Paramedics were sent to Columbia Way and North Sierra Highway around 9:20 a.m. to take the injured person to a hospital, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. An update on the victim’s condition was not immediately available Monday morning.

As of 9:30 a.m., Sierra Highway was closed in all directions at the intersection of Avenue M; and Avenue M was closed from Sierra Highway to Division Street, according to an advisory from the Lancaster Sheriff’s Station.

“We ask that you avoid the area and use an alternate route until the area is cleared,” the advisory stated.

Sheriff’s officials said alternate routes would include 10th Street West or Challenger Way, and encouraged traffic to be diverted north of Avenue L and south of Avenue N to avoid traffic delays and congestion.

[BRYAN HALL]
[BRYAN HALL]
 

Filed Under: Crime/ Safety, Home, Lancaster

12 comments for "Metrolink train, vehicle collide in Lancaster"

  1. Jody says

    March 9, 2022 at 8:34 am

    When I lived in KS the trains all went down a bridge over the traffic. I wish they did that here.

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  2. Jody says

    March 9, 2022 at 8:33 am

    That’s a Metrolink? I thought that was a cargo train. Aren’t the Metrolink’s those blue ones?

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    • Tim Scott says

      March 9, 2022 at 9:19 am

      Yes.

      From reading some other stuff the person that was hit “beat” the freight train by crossing the first track, but because of the backup from the traffic light they were stopped with the back of their car still on the second track…which also had a train coming.

      Reply
  3. Jim Scimonetti says

    March 9, 2022 at 6:46 am

    Where is the rest of this story? No follow up? Did the person live through this? Who was it? Where were they from?

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    • Jody says

      March 9, 2022 at 8:32 am

      They were injured, apparently they’ll be okay thank god.

      Reply
  4. My2Cents says

    March 7, 2022 at 5:34 pm

    That turn onto Sierra is always backed up, someone thought they could run it and were tired of waiting. They need to make that a 2 lane turn and people need to have some common sense and patience.

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  5. Train Conductor says

    March 7, 2022 at 3:00 pm

    Someone tried to outrun the train.

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  6. Exav says

    March 7, 2022 at 11:46 am

    Trains are about 10 feet wide, only go in 2 set directions, come at predictable intervals, have flashing lights and barriers on both sides…and people still manage to get hit.

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    • America's Most Avid Ammosexual says

      March 7, 2022 at 12:23 pm

      And we share the road with them! The proliferation of drivers without licenses, insurance, training or common sense should terrify us all.

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      • Stinger says

        March 8, 2022 at 7:45 am

        And those pale in comparison to the idiots out there that actually have a license, but forgot everything in the drivers’ handbook.

        Just one humble request, people – Our species is not known for its telepathic or psychic predictive abilities, so we don’t know what you are planning to do UNTIL you USE your f-ing TURN SIGNALS!

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    • Tim Scott says

      March 7, 2022 at 1:51 pm

      I don’t know what happened here, but the really amazing thing to me is how many times “train, vehicle collide” turns out to be a car running into the side of a train.

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      • FWB says

        March 7, 2022 at 6:06 pm

        10ft wide but several hundred feet long.

        Oops

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