CLARENDON HILLS (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - A preliminary report has been put out by federal investigators in the crash last month between a Metra train and a truck, in which a woman commuter was killed.
The train was being pushed by a locomotive on the morning of May 11. A cab car, which is a passenger car able to operate the train, was in the front. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said that when the train hit a box truck that had stopped on the tracks in Clarendon Hills, the truck rotated clockwise and hit the right side of the lead car of the train just below the windows.
The truck gouged the side of the train and pushed into the seating compartment causing commuter Christina Lopez of Downers Grove to be ejected. She died while two other commuters and two crew members were injured.
The people in the truck had abandoned it before the crash.
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