An Amtrak train struck a passenger vehicle between W. Lake Houston and E. Sam Houston parkways Sunday in what the Harris County Pct. 3 Constable Sherman Eagleton described as a “major crash.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Law enforcement shared photos from the scene showing first responders gathered around a mangled car after the crash. The driver reportedly disregarded the crossing arms in a down position and was struck by the train, moving at about 60 miles per hour.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sheldon Community Fire & Rescue posted to Facebook that the train conductor had attempted to assist after the accident but was confronted by at least four alligators in the water.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Both the driver and the passenger were rushed to the hospital, with one in critical condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As of Monday morning, authorities have yet to release the identities of those involved publicly. The Harris County Pct. 3 Constable said an investigation is underway.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sheldon Community Fire & Rescue, the Harris County Pct. 3 Constable’s Office, South Lake Houston EMS, Harris County Emergency Corps and Eastex Fire Department responded to the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Amtrak train struck a passenger vehicle between W. Lake Houston and E. Sam Houston parkways Sunday in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1836,1704,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-288068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-chronnews","tag-chronstaff","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288068","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=288068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}