DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) - Authorities shut down Hillsboro Boulevard in Deerfield Beach for hours after a train struck a Publix truck.
The train hit the truck near Hillsboro Boulevard and Dixie Highway just after 8:30 a.m., Friday.
The refrigerated truck was traveling eastbound and was trying to clear the tracks but was unable to do so before the train struck the tractor trailer.
No injuries were reported.
“It’s a mess. They’ll get it cleaned up. It could have been so much worse,” a woman at the crash scene said. “Someone could have got hurt, someone could have got ran over. At the end of the day, it was a Publix truck. At least no one was hurt in the process.”
Milk and dairy products littered the road after the crash. Cleanup is expected to take several hours.
“I got it off my phone from Channel 7, believe it or not,” said a man at the scene. “I just said, I got to come over and see this. You don’t see this every day. I don’t know exactly how it happened, but boy, it’s lucky that it just did that much damage. They could have tore that thing apart.”
Authorities shut down Hillsboro Boulevard at Dixie Highway while crews worked to clear the scene.
The National Transportation Safety Board has since stepped in to investigate.
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