A motorist captured incredible footage of the moment that a train collided with a truck stuck on the tracks this morning.
No Injuries Reported After Truck Vs. Train Strike
The crash happened at 11:15 a.m. in Locust Grove, Georgia. After getting his rig stuck on the tracks, the truck driver was able to exit his vehicle before the train strike.
No injuries were reported.
Locust Grove police are still investigating the incident.
The motorists filming the incident wrote: “You can expect Locust Grove to be shut down for a while. I will never understand why truck drivers try to cross railroad tracks with low clearance signs EVERYWHERE!! Thanking God for his protection, seconds earlier and I would have been covered in debris.
*the truck was STUCK on the tracks that he should have never been trying to cross!”
Train slams into truck in Locust Grove, shuts down parts of Ga. 42: https://t.co/vbIa1I46AR pic.twitter.com/b87bOoaJ07
— The Henry Herald (@TheHenryHerald) August 10, 2017
#BREAKING: Video shows train slam into semi-truck in Locust Grove https://t.co/0dA3059p3Z pic.twitter.com/SRJ1DHcmJ8
— WSB-TV (@wsbtv) August 10, 2017