{"id":76522,"date":"2017-04-20T14:13:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T21:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=76522"},"modified":"2017-04-28T13:58:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T20:58:48","slug":"van-struck-by-freight-train-in-palmdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2017\/04\/20\/van-struck-by-freight-train-in-palmdale\/","title":{"rendered":"Van struck by freight train in Palmdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PALMDALE &#8212; An unoccupied van was struck by a Union Pacific freight train Wednesday evening in Palmdale.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The crash was reported about 9:15 p.m. Wednesday, April 19, on the train tracks near Sierra Highway and Avenue P, according to Lt. Robert Farkas of the Sheriff&#8217;s Palmdale Station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The driver of the van told authorities he ran out of gas, &#8220;unluckily for him, right on the tracks,&#8221; Farkas said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The driver got out of the van and enlisted the help of some bystanders to try to push the van off the tracks but they weren&#8217;t able to, Farkas said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The conductor of the train saw the van and attempted to use the emergency break but still struck the van, Farkas said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The van sustained moderate damage and the train sustained superficial damage, Farkas added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tracks were reopened Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMDALE &#8212; An unoccupied van was struck by a Union Pacific freight train Wednesday evening in Palmdale. The crash was reported about 9:15 p.m. Wednesday, April 19, on the train tracks near Sierra Highway and Avenue P, according to Lt. Robert Farkas of the Sheriff&#8217;s Palmdale Station. The driver of the van told authorities he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}