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Highway 1 Section Closed for Clean-Up, Repairs After Train Hit Diesel Tanker
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The tanker truck was crossing the railroad tracks at an uncontrolled railroad crossing, without gates or lights to warn of oncoming trains, near Highway 1 and Brown Road.
The driver, a Santa Maria man, died later at the hospital, said Santa Maria California Highway Patrol Officer Maria Barriga.
About 3,500 gallons of diesel fuel spilled onto railroad tracks and the roadway after a train crashed into a tanker truck Wednesday afternoon.
The train and tanker truck collision was reported near Highway 1 between Brown Road and West Main Street/Highway 166.
No injuries were reported on Aug. 24, 20218 after an Amtrak passenger train struck a tanker truck near Guadalupe.