(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Metra BNSF train services have resumed following a deadly crash , which killed one passenger, involving a semi-truck in the western suburbs Wednesday morning.
The National Transportation Safety Board took over the investigation of the crash, which happened around 8 a.m. on Prospect Avenue when the truck driver became stuck behind another vehicle, Metra spokeswoman Meg Reile said earlier Wednesday morning.
Hinsdale resident Denise Andrews was on her way to grab some coffee when she noticed the semi-truck stopped on the tracks.
"The driver and the passenger both got out-kind of ran to the back and ten seconds later the Metra train came and this huge explosion, loud noise and it flipped and rolled and burst into flames," she said.
"It was crazy."
The driver exited the semi before the truck was hit, Reile said, citing preliminary information. There was damage to the front of inbound Metra train no. 1242, she said.
Four other people on the train were injured in the crash: two passengers with minor injuries, and a BNSF conductor and a train engineer who also had minor injuries, Gillis said. There were no other reported injuries.
Video from news helicopters showed a semitrailer in flames near the crash site.
In a written statement, Gillis said: “All of us at Metra and BNSF Railway are devastated by this death and we will cooperate fully with the NTSB investigation.”
A spokesman for the NTSB did not immediately return a request for comment.
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