WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah, Feb. 15, 2017 (Gephardt Daily) — Two people were sent to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries after a car turned in front of a TRAX train in West Valley City Wednesday morning.
Officials stated the car turned in front of the train just before 9 a.m. at 2850 S. Decker Lake Drive (1935 West), and two people in that car were injured.
The train hit that car pushing it into a second vehicle.
No one in the second vehicle or on the TRAX train was injured.
Odette Rodriguez was on her way to class on the moving Green Line Airport TRAX train.
“I was on the train,” Rodriguez told Gephardt Daily. “I was on the opposite side, on the very last train, so I didn’t see anything, but I felt a jerk, and I saw kind of a flash, so I was worried.”
The train stopped, and Rodriguez and other riders peered out of the window and saw the car involved in the accident.
“My first thought is, ‘Are there any kids,’ because I’m a mom, I’m a young mom, so my first thought is, are there any kids,” she said. “So I’m worried, but there’s not much I can do sitting on the train. I was worried just to make sure everyone who was involved was safe.”
Emergency services arrived quickly, Rodriguez said.
“The fact they were able to get taken care of makes me feel better,” she said. “The car did seem pretty smashed on the driver’s side.”
As of 11 a.m., the scene has been cleared.
