After the driver was out of a disabled pickup truck on the tracks in South Charlestown, N.H., on Feb. 3, 2019, an Amtrak passenger train struck the vehicle, causing significant damage. (Charlestown Police Department photograph)
After the driver was out of a disabled pickup truck on the tracks in South Charlestown, N.H., on Feb. 3, 2019, an Amtrak passenger train struck the vehicle, causing significant damage. (Charlestown Police Department photograph) Credit: —

CHARLESTOWN — An Amtrak train carrying 74 people slammed into a pickup truck Sunday evening shortly after the driver got out, police said.

Police in Charlestown said the truck had gone over a guardrail and had landed on the railroad tracks on Sunday night. The driver had suffered minor injuries and was taken to a hospital. The Amtrak Vermonter train hit the vacated truck.

Police said passengers were removed from the train and taken by bus to the Bellows Falls, Vt., Amtrak station.

Scattered debris struck a fire truck, injuring one person inside who was taken to a hospital. The accident is under investigation.

Correction

Only one Amtrak train hit a pickup truck that was stuck on the tracks in Charlestown on Sunday evening. An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported how many trains hit the empty truck.