

KTVU-2 reported that the collision occurred at Webster Street and Embarcadero around 10 p.m., and that at least 18 people had minor injuries. A passenger interviewed by the station said the impact was severe enough to jolt people from their seats and to the floor.


"It was an awful jolt," said Alton Smith, a passenger from Oklahoma who told KTVU he had a sore neck after the crash. "I was sitting down, but I don't know what would have happened had I been standing up."


KTVU said one of the trains was bound for Bakersfield, and the other was coming from Los Angeles. One of the trains was stopped at the station when it was struck by the second train in what initially was described as a "fender-bender."





This is the second significant East Bay incident in two weeks resulting in injuries to Amtrak passengers. On Sept. 30, 39 passengers on board a San Joaquin commuter train received minor to moderate injuries when the train hit a farm truck at a rural crossing east of Brentwood. Two people in the truck were uninjured.

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