Amtrak train collides with big rig; 30 hurt

About 30 passengers suffered "minor to moderate" injures when an Amtrak passenger train collided with a truck near Hanford, California, Monday afternoon, a sheriff’s spokesman said. "It was a traffic collision with a big rig and an Amtrak train which collided," Kings County Assistant Sheriff Dave Putnam said. "The big rig hauling cotton failed to yield." There were 11 people with moderate injuries and 19 with minor injuries, according to Kings County EMS Director Dan Lynch. Thirteen ambulances arrived at the scene to take the injured hospitals, Lynch said.