{"id":452983,"date":"2010-03-20T15:19:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T19:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a95ad9b1970b"},"modified":"2010-03-20T19:28:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T23:28:55","slug":"truck-driver-killed-in-metrolink-crash-near-el-monte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/452983","title":{"rendered":"Truck driver killed in Metrolink crash near El Monte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;ll=34.055219,-118.00209&amp;spn=0.061724,0.110378&amp;z=13&amp;msid=102617558666443238993.0004823fb38a9fa8df785\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Metrolink train crashed Saturday morning into a Union Pacific maintenance truck on a train crossing east of El Monte, killing the pickup truck's driver and injuring two train passengers.\" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a95ad990970b-pi\" title=\"A Metrolink train crashed Saturday morning into a Union Pacific maintenance truck on a train crossing east of El Monte, killing the pickup truck's driver and injuring two train passengers.\"><\/img><\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>A Metrolink train collided with a Union Pacific maintenance pickup truck Saturday morning at a crossing east of El Monte, killing the truck&#8217;s driver and sending two train passengers to local hospitals.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metrolinktrains.com\/\">Metrolink<\/a> train No. 354 was heading eastbound from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metrolinkweekends.com\/lines\/view\/2\">Union Station to San Bernardino<\/a> when the crash occurred at about 9:20 a.m. on the crossing at Temple Avenue, near Valley Boulevard and the 605 Freeway, said Metrolink spokeswoman Angie Starr.\n<\/p>\n<p>The track crossing straddles the City of Industry and the unincorporated community of Bassett, east of the San Gabriel River.\n<\/p>\n<p>The collision halted train traffic in both directions on the San Bernardino line. Buses were ferrying train passengers so they could detour around the accident site. At about 11:30 a.m., the remaining passengers on the train involved in the crash were waiting for buses to arrive.\n<\/p>\n<p>There were more than 130 people on the train, including two crew members and two law enforcement personnel.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Rong-Gong Lin II <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/03\/railroad-worker-killed-metrolink-crash-el-monte.html\">Updated: 4:19 p.m.: Railroad worker killed in Metrolink crash near El Monte<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related:\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Metrolink\">Metrolink&#8217;s Twitter page, with updates on the situation.<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Map of accident location<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Metrolink train collided with a Union Pacific maintenance pickup truck Saturday morning at a crossing east of El Monte, killing the truck&#8217;s driver and sending two train passengers to local hospitals. Metrolink train No. 354 was heading eastbound from Union Station to San Bernardino when the crash occurred at about 9:20 a.m. on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5852,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5852"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}