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MONROE, N.C. — A CSX train crash involving 5 vehicles and a semi truck on Tuesday, April 30, shut down Old Charlotte Highway and Rocky River Road in Monroe N.C. for hours.

A CSX train plowed into a semi truck that was stopped on the tracks at a rail crossing in Monroe, NC on April 30, 2013 and spilled a load of PVC pipe all over the surrounding area.

The accident occurred at 5 p.m. after a CSX train crashed into a tractor-trailer that was parked on the tracks causing the tractor trailer to spill hundreds of PVC pipes.

Map showing location of CSX train crash with tractor trailer in Monroe, NC at the rail crossing on Old Charlotte Hwy and N Rocky River Road on April 30, 2013.

Police charged the truck driver with failure to stop at a railroad crossing.

9 WSOCTV reported the following:

“I turned away because I knew something was coming,” said witness David Frank, whose truck was damaged in the accident.

All Frank could do was hold his breath and pray in the seconds before the crash.

“Soon as I heard the train whistle I knew something was going to happen,” said Frank.

A total of five vehicles were involved in the wreck.

“It was just like a boom when the train hit the trailer,” said Frank.

A local witness, Mike Reese said. “We were sitting in the office just working away and all of a sudden it sounded like a bomb went off.”

Reese was working at the Union County Habitat for Humanity office when the train crash happened. When he came outside he said he saw the tractor trailer had been hit by the train.

“He had crept into the railroad crossing to try and make the light as it changed and he couldn’t see up the railroad tracks because of the trees that the train was coming,” he said.

The media reported that four people were sent to the hospital with minor injuries and have been released.

Blog post by Gordon &amp Elias, a FELA lawyer and North Carolina railroad injury lawyer who publishes train accidents and FELA legal news from across the United States.

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