A car collided with a freight train Friday in Commerce, trapping a woman in the vehicle, which was wedged beneath the train.
The crash was reported at 6:01 p.m. in the 3500 block of Garfield Avenue, near Slauson Avenue, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
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Firefighters used heavy equipment to cut the woman from the wreckage and she was freed and on her way to County-USC Medical Center by 6:37 p.m., according to a dispatch supervisor who described the woman’s injuries as serious.
–City News Service