Commuter Train Incident in California Leaves 28 Injured

Police are investigating an incident that occurred Tuesday morning in Oxnard, California when a Metrolink train collided with a truck, causing three train cars to derail.

The driver of the truck is reportedly being questioned by authorities after the incident that took place around 5:44 a.m., when a truck and a trailer became stuck on the tracks in Oxnard, 65 miles north of Los Angeles.

A Metrolink commuter train then collided with the truck, causing three of its five cars to topple off of the tracks. Police are reporting that 28 people were injured and 23 people were left uninjured. Four are listed as being in critical condition.

One local resident, Jorge Garcia, told the Los Angeles Times of hearing the train collision while he was getting ready to go to work.

"I just heard a bang and then an explosion," Garcia told the media outlet. "It was a big old boom. And then the ambulances started. [...] You could see it was something big."

According to CNN, Metrolink spokesman Scott Johnson said in a statement that authorities are trying to determine how the driver of the truck became stuck on the train tracks.

"How that individual came to stop on the track is yet to be determined," he told the media outlet, adding that the incident "could not be avoided from a rail standpoint."

Another Metrolink spokesman, Jeff Lustgarten, told CNN that he "[does] know it was at a crossing. I don't know why a truck was there."