NBC6’s Jamie Guirola is live from Miami-Dade where a car crashed into a railroad crossing arm.
One person was severely injured when a car crashed into a train crossing signal in Northwest Miami-Dade on Monday as authorities conducted an investigation.
The Dodge Charger made impact with a train crossing signal and wound up completely on its side with the front end completely smashed and the airbags deployed.
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The train crossing signal was completely on the ground, shutting down the road and causing major delays.
The incident happened at around 3:40 p.m. and Miami Dade Fire Rescue responded to reports of a car versus a train near Northwest 125th Street and Northwest 32nd Avenue.
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When they got here, fire crews found a train signal device that was hit by a vehicle as a result of the collision, so this was not a train accident that involved the train signal.
MDFR firefighters extinguished a slight fire in one of two vehicles involved in the crash.
There was one traumatic injury involved in this case and that person was taken to the hospital by helicopter.
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We are waiting for investigators to give us more information as to exactly how this happened. And of course, an update as far as the injury that's concerned in this accident.
