A grade crossing accident involving a freight train and flatbed truck around 9:40 a.m. Friday in Joppa left the driver of the truck injured, according to Harford County Emergency Operations.
Rick Ayers, the emergency operations manager for the county, said the "truck ran into a train at the CSX tracks on Joppa Road," but the train didn't derail. The tracks run between Route 7 and Route 40 through the Joppa area.
The male truck driver was injured, treated at the scene by medics and then transported by the Joppa-Magnolia Volunteer Fire Company to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore. According to the fire company's website, the train was westbound, and the truck was 24 feet long.
The driver's injuries were not life-threatening, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office, which investigated the accident. The injured man had not been identified as of Saturday morning.
According to a news release from sheriff's office, the truck was struck by the CSX locomotive and pushed approximately 20 yards down the tracks before flipping over on its passenger side with the driver still inside the cab.
The driver told emergency responders he did not see the crossing's warning lights and proceeded to cross when the truck was struck by the train, according to the sheriff's office release.
The conductor of the train told investigators the crossing lights were operational, as were the locomotive's lights, horn and bell, according to the sheriff's office.
While "very little if any" fuel leaked as a result of the accident, a Harford County hazmat team was dispatched to the scene to "pump off both of the saddle tanks on the [truck] before they moved [it]," as a precautionary measure, Ayers of emergency operations said.
Joppa Road was closed for about four hours.
In addition to Joppa-Magnolia, Kingsville Volunteer Fire Company responded to the Joppa Farm Road overpass where firefighters checked the locomotive for any damage or fuel leaks, according to the Joppa-Magnolia VFC website.