HUTTO, Texas -- The victim in a train collision in Hutto over the weekend has been identified.
On Sunday, the collision between a train and 44-year-old truck driver Samuel Guebara left him critically injured and hundreds of passengers stranded. The collision happened around 10 a.m. on a small private road that crosses the train tracks near Hwy. 79 and 130 in Hutto.
Emergency crews have cleared much of the debris and have the the tracks up and running again.
For more than 200 people what started out as a holiday trip turned into much more.
"The train was blowing its whistle, and the truck continued to cross the tracks and was struck by the train," DPS official Michael Knight said.
DPS said the truck was carrying a small car with no passengers when it pulled in front of the train.
"We looked over and just saw all the cars that had been damaged," passenger Geneva Blair said. "The front of the train had part of the car -- thought somebody was hurt real bad."
A truck axle wedged between tracks and the train was most of what remained from a collision few passengers even felt.
Barrett Deming was just 30 minutes out of Austin when his trip to Arkansas was cut short.
"It felt like a speed bump," Deming said. "I really didn't think it was anything. I thought we would just keep going."
For several hundred yards the train did keep going, crushing the truck and ejecting its driver in the process.
Hutto Fire Department arrived in minutes to contain the scene.
Hazmat crews handled the diesel fuel that spilled all over the tracks while workers evacuated more than 200 passengers.
EMS took the truck's driver to Seton Williamson Hospital in critical condition. DPS confirmed that he is a 44-year-old man from San Antonio.
Meanwhile passengers loaded into school buses to wait out the accident at a nearby church.
Fortunately none of the passengers suffered any serious injuries. They are now on charter buses heading to Fort Worth to catch connecting trains.
Five hours after it began, another train pulled the Chicago bound Amtrak down clear tracks, ending its journey that had just started.
Amtrak does have video of the collision that they are releasing to authorities to help with the investigation.
