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NORTH BERWICK, Maine — An Amtrak train traveling at 70 mph smashed into a tractor- trailer Monday in a fiery collision that killed the truck driver, injured a half-dozen other people and sent flames more than three stories high, a witness and officials said.
Witnesses reported that safety lights were flashing and gates were down at the intersection when the tractor-trailer crossed into the path of Amtrak’s Downeaster at about 11 a.m., said Police Chief Stephen Peasley. None of the train’s 112 passengers or three crew members suffered serious injuries.
A witness said the tractor- trailer driver slammed on the brakes, Peasley said. “From what I’ve been told, it appears that it skidded through the intersection,” he said.
