One Reported Dead After Raleigh Train Wreck

Raleigh, N.C. — One person is dead after an Amtrak train struck a car on a Raleigh railroad track late Tuesday morning, an Amtrak representative says.

The train was traveling from Charlotte to New York when it struck the car near Royal and Hillsborough Streets.

The fatality was from the car, the Amtrak spokesman said. There were no reports of injuries on the train.

The train was carrying 191 people, including 23 students and five adults from a Durham day camp.

Further details were not immediately available, but a man traveling nearby at the time said he heard a horn and then a loud smack. The car was thrown about 50 feet from the train crossing into the woods, he said.

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