TRE train clips tanker truck crossing track near CentrePoint station

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(Fort Worth, TX.) – One passenger was injured early this morning when a Trinity Rail Express train hit a tanker truck at a railroad crossing on Calloway Cemetery Road south of Trinity Boulevard in Arlington.

Officials with Trinity Metro said the T-R-E train clipped the back of the tanker, hauling liquid asphalt, as it crossed the tracks around 5:30am.  The area where the accident happened is mostly industrial.  One person riding the train suffered minor injuries.  The driver of the truck was not injured.