Orange County Trains Slow After Metrolink Train Crashes Into Stalled Pickup

November 4, 2009 (by Horatio Algren) According to reports the Orange County train lines were slowed after an early morning crash.

According to Angela Starr at approximately 6:45 a.m. a Metrolink train struck a stalled pickup truck in the vicinity of Norwalk.

A Chevy pickup truck was traveling northbound on Marquardt and making the left turn onto Rosecrans when it stalled on the tracks, said Starr. The driver exited the truck prior to the Metrolink train crashing into it and was uninjured.

The commuter train had left Oceanside at 5:20 a.m. and resumed its route approximately and hour and a half after the accident occurred.

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