9 years ago
Amtrak train collides with truck full of bacon in Illinois
A Chicago-bound Amtrak train collided with a tractor-trailer carrying 70,000 pounds of bacon Friday, spewing meat all over the tracks in Wilmington, Ill. None of the 203 passengers were seriously injured when the Texas Eagle train, which left San Antonio on Thursday and ran through the truck at about 4 p.m., Amtrak spokesman Craig Schulz told the Daily News. The truck had been sitting on the tracks, and the driver was able to flee the vehicle before it was hit, witnesses told ABC 7 Chicago.
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