LOS ANGELES – Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the collision between a Southern California commuter train and a truck abandoned on the tracks was this: No one died and only eight people on board were admitted to hospitals.
Officials with the Metrolink train system credit cars designed to blunt the tremendous force of a head-on collision.
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