A 26-year-old man escaped injury when a train hit his pickup truck on Cordrey Avenue Thursday evening. Orange police report Shaun Nicholas McCall said he ran through the crossing signal because he had fallen asleep. The force when the train engine hit knocked the truck backward and woke him up, police reported.
Police said the collision was at 7:12 p.m. Thursday. McCall was driving the Dodge Ram 1500 eastbound on Cordrey when the truck got on the tracks as the train was coming. Earlier this year the city of Orange instituted a “quiet zone” for trains passing through town meaning the trains do not blow horns at crossings. However, each crossing is marked and has arms that descend as a train approaches.
Police gave McCall a ticket for disregarding a railroad crossing when a train approached.
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