Metro-North Train Strikes Car on Camp Avenue

Update, 12:44 p.m.:

Metro-North reports that service will resume on the New Canaan branch at 12:57 p.m.

Update, 12:34 p.m.:

News 12 has posted a photo of the car after the driver was extricated.

Original article:

Service on the New Canaan branch was suspended Wednesday morning after a Metro-North train struck a vehicle pulled across the tracks at Camp Ave. and Hoyt Street.

Fire Marshal Bob Buch said that the emergency call came in around 9:48 a.m. Firefighters extricated the driver, Buch said, who was injured but alive.

Calls placed to the MTA were not immediately returned, but a spokeswoman told WNYC that the driver, a 92-year-old man, had pulled his vehicle onto the tracks when the gates on both sides came down to signal an approaching train.

He was transported to Stamford Hospital, where his condition was not available.

48 people were evacuated from the train, according to the spokeswoman, which was stopped at the accident scene for several hours. No injuries were reported among the passengers.

The train pulled away shortly before noon, but responders were still on the scene at that hour.