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MONROE, N.C. — A semi truck driver, who stopped his 18-wheeler on the tracks trying to make a light, has been charged with failure to stop at a railroad crossing in the Monroe, North Carolina train crash that happened on Tuesday, April 30.

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.

Police said that when the truck driver tried to pull up to avoid the train, he hit a car, starting a chain reaction crash with four cars and another tractor trailer involved.

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.

According to the Charlotte Observer, 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 Observer reported that four people were sent to the hospital with minor injuries and have been released.

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