NEW CANAAN, Conn. A 92-year-old motorist was hospitalized Wednesday after a car and a Metro-North train collided near the Talmadge Hill station.
Railroad spokeswoman Marjorie Anders said a 2005 Chevrolet Malibu driven by the elderly man stopped on the railroad crossing at Camp Avenue. While the car was on the tracks, it was hit by a southbound train traveling between 35 and 40 mph, she said. The cars airbag deployed and the driver was conscious when emergency medical crews arrived and took him to Stamford Hospital.
Darien Fire Marshal Robert Buch said the wreck was called in at 9:48 a.m. Noroton Heights firefighters responded and had to extricate the driver, Buch said.
Anders said she was not sure how the car became stuck on the track or how long it had been there before the train came. None of the trains passengers or crew was hurt, she said, and passengers were taken by bus to the Stamford station.
Service along the New Canaan line resumed at 12:57 p.m. when a New Canaan-bound train departed from Stamford. However, crews were scheduled to work overnight repairing the signal gate that fell during the wreck. The intersection of Route 106 and Camp Avenue, where the wreck occurred, was blocked off by police.
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