[CNN NEWS]Dozens hurt in Israel train crash

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Monday, June 12, 2006; Posted: 7:11 a.m. EDT (11:11 GMT)
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- A passenger train has derailed and overturned in central Israel after hitting a truck, injuring at least 63 people, according to an Israeli ambulance service official.

Officials said 58 people had been evacuated and another five were trapped at the scene in an overturned passenger car.

One woman told Army Radio her trapped husband called her on his cellphone to say he could see other, seriously injured people trapped in the same car.

Of those hurt, six suffered moderate injures with 52 said to have sustained light injuries.

The passenger train, carrying 200 people from Tel Aviv to Haifa, crashed into a car at a rail crossing near the city of Netanya, the official said.

Efforts were made to alert the train to stop, but it struck the truck at high speed, a witness told Channel 2 TV, according to The Associated Press.

Ambulances and medical rescue helicopters were at the scene. Passengers walked along the tracks after the crash, while others used cellphones to call loved ones and transmit images.

A passenger, quoted by the YNet news web site, said: "We overturned and passengers broke windows to get outside."

Seven people were killed in a similar incident when a passenger train hit a truck south of Tel Aviv in June 2005. More than 150 injured.

Unconfirmed reports also said the driver of the train escaped before the crash, and that the truck had tried to cross despite barriers being down.

Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told The Associated Press the barrier was down but one witness in a passing car who identified herself only as Miri told Israel Radio the gate was up.

"I'm not sure why (the truck) got stuck, but its two front wheels got caught," she said.

"The driver got out before the crossing gate came down. ... The train just continued steaming ahead with the truck, and the truck was crushed."

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CNN 于2006年6月12日 上午7点11分 （格林威治时间11点11分）报道

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    在以色列中部，一列旅客列车在撞上一辆卡车后出轨并倾覆，据一位救护车随车医生称至少63人受伤
官方证实58名乘客已经从现场撤离，另有5人仍然被困在一节倾覆的列车车厢内
一名妇女告诉军方电台，她的丈夫通过手机说他和其他一些严重受伤的乘客一起被困在车厢内。
受伤乘客中有6人伤情较重，另外有52人受轻伤
官方声称这列由特拉维夫开往海法的旅客列车运载了200名乘客，在靠近Netanya的一处铁路道口与一辆卡车相撞。
一名目击者称铁路调度试图警告列车停车，但是它仍然高速撞上了卡车
救护车与直升机赶到现场，有乘客在事故发生后顺着铁轨逃离，其他人用手机向亲友报平安，并传来现场图像。
YNet news 网站引述一名乘客的话说：“我们感到天翻地覆，乘客们打破玻璃逃生”
在2005年6月，有7人在海法南部发生的一起类似的火车与卡车相撞的事故中丧生
未经证实的报道称该列车的大车在事故发生后不知去向，并且这辆卡车是在道口撂杆儿后仍然试图通过，造成事故的发生。
警方发言人Micky Rosenfeld 告诉联合新闻社，事发时道口已经撂杆儿， 但一位乘客发誓称情况并非如此
“我不清楚卡车是如何侵界的，但它的前轮在通过道口时被卡住了”这位乘客说，“卡车司机在撂杆儿前逃离了驾驶室.....列车只是一味的向前行驶，于是与卡车发生了相撞”

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