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3/20/09 Workers from Larry Campbell Towing and Recovery of Charlotte along with other emergency personnel, work to remove a car and other debris from a car hauler near the railroad tracks along Old Concord Road in Charlotte, NC Friday evening. A train with 104 passengers collided into a car hauler that had gotten stuck on the tracks in north Charlotte. The driver of the car hauler was not injured and had left the vehicle before the train hit. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

3/20/09 Workers from Larry Campbell Towing and Recovery of Charlotte along with other emergency personnel, work to remove a car and other debris from a car hauler near the railroad tracks along Old Concord Road in Charlotte, NC Friday evening. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

3/20/09 A train with 104 passengers collided into a car hauler that had gotten stuck on the tracks in north Charlotte near Old Concord Road and Harris Boulevard Friday evening. The driver of the car hauler was not injured and had left the vehicle before the train hit. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

3/20/09 Medic and other emergency personnel remove a passenger from the train that had collided into a car hauler on the tracks in north Charlotte near Old Concord Road and Newell Hickory Grove Rd. Friday evening. The truck was stuck on the tracks. The driver of the car hauler was not injured and had left the vehicle before the train hit. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

3/20/09 Medic and other emergency personnel remove a passenger from the train that had collided into a car hauler on the tracks in north Charlotte. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

3/20/09 Train passengers (center-right) Mattie Rhodes of Winston-Salem, NC and her granddaughter, Cici Rhodes, 2 yrs. exit the train after it collided into a car hauler on the tracks in north Charlotte Friday evening. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

3/20/09 Medic tends to an injured passenger from the train that collided into a car hauler on the tracks in north Charlotte Friday evening. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

3/20/09 Passengers onboard the train that collided into a car hauler on the tracks in north Charlotte near Old Concord Road and Newell Hickory Grove Road mingle about a car Friday evening. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

3/20/09 Medic tends to injured passengers as others walk down Old Concord Road after exiting the train that had collided with a car hauler on the tracks in north Charlotte Friday evening. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

3/20/09 Mattie Rhodes of Winston-Salem, NC talks with the media after exiting the train with her granddaughter, (not pictured) Cici Rhodes, 2 yrs. The train with 104 passengers collided into a car hauler that had gotten stuck on the tracks near Old Concord Road and Newsll Hickory Grove Road Friday evening. The driver of the car hauler was not injured and had left the vehicle before the train hit. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

3/20/09 Emergency personnel look over the cab of a truck after it was hit by a passenger train Friday evening. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

3/20/09 Emergency personnel look over the locomotive after it collided with a car hauler that had gotten stuck on the tracks in north Charlotte Friday evening. The driver of the car hauler was not injured and had left the vehicle before the train hit. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

3/20/09 Workers from Larry Campbell Towing and Recovery of Charlotte work to pull a car from a hauler after it was hit by a passenger train in north Charlotte Friday evening. The car hauler had gotten stuck on the tracks. The driver of the car hauler was not injured and had left the vehicle before the train hit. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com