Trucker dies after hitting train on fall-color excursion on Cheat Mountain.
A logging truck slammed into a fall tourism train at a rail crossing in eastern West Virginia on Friday afternoon, killing the trucker and injuring 66 passengers, officials said.
Three people were critically injured in the accident, which happened at 1:30 p.m. at a crossing on along U.S. Route 250 atop Cheat Mountain, about 160 miles east of Charleston, Randolph County emergency services director James Wise told WCHS-TV. Two cars of the Cheat Mountain Salamander overturned.
The train, owned by Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad, was carrying tourists on a day-long, 128-mile excursion through Appalachian spruce forests and wilderness at the peak of fall foliage. The train carried 63 passengers and three crew members, said Sandy Burky, director of passenger services.
The diesel-powered train left Elkins. W. Va., at 10:15 a.m. and was to return at 5 p.m.
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