Associated Press
SLIDELL, La. — Authorities say accidents involving Amtrak trains 10 1/2 hours apart on opposite ends of south Louisiana have killed one and injured seven.
A sheriff’s office says 36-year-old Cristal S. LaPoint was killed and a 19-year-old man injured by an Amtrak train while they were walking along the tracks about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in Vinton.
An Amtrak train with 12 crew and 68 passengers hit a tractor-trailer carrying the shell of an armored personnel carrier about 8 a.m. across the state. Slidell police say that crash injured six people on board and the truck driver and blocked a major highway for hours.
Authorities say the driver told investigators he didn’t see the train.
The truck was bound for a Slidell plant that makes armored personnel carriers.