Only minor injuries were reported by emergency crews after an SUV was struck and destroyed by a SunRail truck in south Orlando.
Orange County Fire Rescue units responded to the intersection of East Lancaster Road and South Orange Avenue after receiving reports of a train accident involving a vehicle.
According to authorities, a 58-year-old Palm Coast man was stopped in his 2007 GMC Yukon in the eastbound lane of Lancaster Road, just west of S Orange Avenue. His vehicle was stopped on the railroad tracks.
Shortly after, a SunRail train heading northbound activated the railroad crossing arms, which descended and struck the front of the SUV.
The driver failed to move his vehicle off the railroad tracks as the train approached, and the front of the train collided with the rear passenger side of the vehicle.
Due to the impact, the vehicle rotated clockwise and multiple unsecured items were thrown out of it, including a black jump box that hit a nearby pedestrian standing in a parking lot at 6555 S Orange Avenue.
The driver was transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center with minor injuries. The conductor and 47 passengers on the train were not injured.
The pedestrian, a 19-year-old Winter Garden man, sustained minor injuries and was not transported to the hospital.
The crash spurred a roadblock for hours that has since been cleared.