The driver of a semi-tractor trailer escaped injury when a train hit the rig in Gastonia, North Carolina at Poplar Street and ...
The collision happened at Airline Avenue and Poplar Street in Gastonia.
Nobody was hurt in the Gastonia incident. Medic responded to 33 wrecks, including a collision that hospitalized two with life-threatening injuries.
Police in Hillsborough praised an Amtrak engineer Thursday for stopping a North Carolina passenger train after spotting a truck stuck across the tracks.