Updated 5:55 pm ET
An Amtrak train collided with a tractor-trailer and derailed on Monday in Halifax, North Carolina, toppling the engine on its side and leaving the car directly behind the engine derailed, and a third car partially derailed.
The cab of the truck was intact, but the truck's trailer carrying some kind of large load covered in a large blue tarp was destroyed by the force of the impact.
Halifax County Sheriff Wes Tripp told The Daily Herald of Roanoke Rapids that the accident occurred around noon Monday.
Injuries do not appear to be life-threatening
Transportation officials say 40 passengers were injured. DOT officials said 25 people were taken to Halifax Regional Medical Center by bus and 15 by ambulance after the collision.
Unhurt passengers were being loaded onto waiting buses.
An eyewitness says the tractor-trailer driver was trying to make a difficult right-hand turn. She says the driver jumped out of the truck before the crash.
Halifax is in eastern North Carolina, near the Virginia line.
The Amtrak train was the Carolinian, which runs between Charlotte, North Carolina, and New York each day.
Learn more: Amtrak Train, Truck Collide in North Carolina; Several Hurt
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