An Amtrak train carrying 129 passengers and nine crew members collided with a heavy-duty truck hauling rocks Tuesday morning near San Antonio, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The crash occurred around 8:05 a.m. at the railroad crossing in the municipality of Schertz, located northeast of San Antonio<\/p>\n
According to the Schertz Police Department, the heavy-duty truck was occupied only by its driver when it was struck by the Chicago-bound passenger train. No injuries were reported among passengers, crew, or the truck driver, and the train did not derail.<\/p>\n
Amtrak officials said the train was delayed for about 90 minutes before continuing its route to Chicago<\/p>\n
Authorities closed Solms Quarry Road and FM 482 for several hours while crews cleared the scene. The tracks were reopened by 10:35 a.m., police said.<\/p>\n
Authorities said state and federal partners are assisting in the investigation to determine the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Amtrak train carrying 129 passengers and nine crew members collided with a heavy-duty truck hauling rocks Tuesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13474,2912,18940,82,84,83,11767],"class_list":["post-27445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-amtrak","tag-collision","tag-railroad","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-trucking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}