Fast train hits truck in Poland; 15 hospitalized

A spokesman for national firefighters says a fast train hit a truck at an unguarded railway crossing in southwestern Poland, sending 15 people to the hospital and leaving others with more minor injuries.

Pawel Fratczak said today the accident occurred around 3 p.M. In the village of Schodnia, when a Pendolino intercity train going from Wroclaw to Warsaw hit the vehicle.

The truck driver was uninjured, he said.