Crime & Safety
Freight Train Strikes Stolen Pickup Truck In Zephyrhills
A CSX freight train traveling north on tracks running parallel and east of State Road 39 collided with a stolen Chevrolet Silverado.
ZEPHYRHILLS, FL — A CSX freight train traveling north on tracks running parallel and east of State Road 39 collided with a stolen Chevrolet Silverado from Mosaic’s nearby fertilizer plant at 8:10 a.m. Monday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The Silverado was left abandoned on the tracks several hundred feet south of Bay Avenue in Zephyrhills. There were no injuries to anyone on the train which did not derail.
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