Havoc as train collides with truck

Havoc ... a Southern California Metrolink commuter train has collided with a truck on tracks in Southern California. Picture: ABC News Source: Supplied

AT LEAST 30 people have been injured after a passenger train collided with a ute on tracks and derailed in Southern California.

Oxnard police Sgt. Denise Shadinger says the crash, reported at 5.44am Tuesday (12.44am Wednesday AEDT), toppled three of the train's carriages onto their sides.

A fourth car is derailed but remains upright, along with the engine.

Shadinger says the truck became fully engulfed in flames.

Television news helicopters showed several firetrucks surrounding the tracks, running parallel to a road and a field. Tarps were lying on the street and firefighters were treating victims.

One toppled carriage laid with one end on the tracks and another on the street. Another passenger carriage derailed but didn't topple, and the locomotive also remained upright.

Little was left of the truck but scorched and mangled wreckage - some debris was in a nearby intersection and some close to the tracks.

Metrolink's website says the Southern California Metrolink commuter train was on a run from Ventura County to Los Angeles.

The crash follows two major crashes involving Metrolink trains in the last decade.

In 2008, a Metrolink train that went through a red signal collided head-on with a freight train in Chatsworth, killing 25.

In 2005, a truck abandoned on a rail line near Glendale caused a Metrolink train to derail and collide with other trains, killing 11.

More to come.

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