AMARILLO, Texas (AP) Three freight trains collided in Texas before dawn Wednesday, derailing up to 30 cars and injuring four crewmembers including two critically.
An eastbound BNSF Railway train rear-ended a stopped train, just east of Amarillo, then moments later a westbound train collided with the two-train wreck, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. The accident was reported shortly after 4:30 a.m.
"The wreckage was mangled up," said DPS Trooper Chris Ray.
Four people were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, Ray said.
"It sounded like thunder," truck driver Sandy Strickland, who was nearby when the accident happened, told the Amarillo Globe-News.