TANGIPAHOA PARISH, La. — One person is dead after an Amtrak train crashed into an SUV in Tangipahoa Parish, according to the sheriff's office.
Officials said that nobody on the train was hurt, but both people in the SUV were injured. They were both taken to the hospital by AirMed, where one of them died from their injuries.
The crash happened on the intersection of Highway 51 and Ponders Quarters, south of Amite and north of Independence.
Amtrak officials say the train was headed to New Orleans from Chicago.
This incident comes less than a week after an Amtrak train crashed into an 18-wheeler carrying gravel, less than a mile away. A train engineer was taken to the hospital after that crash.
Tangipahoa Parish also saw two drivers killed by train crashes in the area in one day back in December of 2021. James Kelly, 55, was driving a pickup truck in Delhi, when he was killed by a freight train.
An hour later an Amtrak passenger train hit a dump truck driven by 60-year-old Cedric West of Minden. West was killed in that wreck. Just like the two crashes this week, that one also happened south of Amite.
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