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MVC - Car versus Train - Red Lion & Kirkwood Saint Georges Road

Thursday, July 2, 2015

On October 13, 2009 at 0648 hours, Christiana Fire Company and New Castle County Paramedics were dispatched to the report of a collision between a car and a freight train. BLS ambulances B-6 and B-3 along with Squad 12-6 responded along with New Castle County Paramedic Unit 6. First arriving units found two vehicles and the train involved, with front end damage to the two vehicles. The train has stopped and was blocking Red Lion Road. The crossing warning signals were activated and operational. One patient was transported to Christiana Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The scene was turned over to Delaware State Police for investigation and DelDOT for traffic control.