Amtrak train slams into car that ended up on tracks in north Chicago suburbs
MORTON GROVE , Ill. -- An Amtrak train headed for Union Station hit an unoccupied car on the tracks in Morton Grove Thursday night, just after witnesses pulled out the suspected drunken driver.Just before 7 p.m., Train No. 1340 on then Borealis Service—headed from St. Paul, Minnesota through Milwaukee to Chicago—hit the unoccupied vehicle at 8500 N. Lehigh Ave. in Morton Grove . This is just south of the Glenview Amtrak station.
No injuries were reported to the driver or anyone on the train, police said.As seen in video from the scene, the car was ripped in two by the crash.Part of the car was left wrecked and mangled at the front of the train. The rest of the car was standing on two wheels on the tracks with its back end sheared off.A sport-utility vehicle with rear-end damage was also seen nearby.
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