Pickup collides with train; driver taken to hospital

Pickup hit stopped train on Hay Road near Edgemoor Road. (Photo: Delaware Free News)
Pickup collided with train on Lighthouse Road near Edgemoor Road. (Photo: Delaware Free News)

EDGEMOOR, DELAWARE (8/25/2015) A 58-year-old man was injured when the pickup truck he was driving  collided with a tank car on a train near the entrance to Fox Point State Park, authorities said.

The accident happened about 4:50 p.m. on Lighthouse Road east of Edgemoor Road.

The man was treated at the scene for a possible head injury by New Castle County paramedics and taken by Brandywine Hundred Fire Company ambulance to Christiana Hospital.

Sgt. Michael A. McColley, a spokesman for paramedics, said the driver was in stable condition.

Delaware State Police are investigating the crash.

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