RTRS - Melbourne train collides with truck , 15 injured .
MELBOURNE 1996-08-26
Fifteen people were injured when a suburban passenger train and a truck collided at a street-level rail crossing in the Australian city of Melbourne on Monday , said rail and ambulance officials .
The injured , which included a pregnant woman , were taken to hospital , but were not in a serious condition , an ambulance spokesman told Reuters .
A Public Transport Corporation spokesman said the train , collided with the truck loaded with concrete pylons in the north Melbourne suburb of Preston just before 8.30 a.m ..
The train was derailed when a corner of the driver 's compartment caught the rear of the truck , the spokesman said .
The truck was overturned , spilling its load onto the crossing , and careered into the nearby Bell St Station .
" Remarkably both the train driver and the truck driver were not injured , " the rail spokesman said .
" It had the potential to be quite a nasty accident . "
-- Sydney Newsroom 61-2 373-1800