(remember when field trips used to be fun?)
Students Learn Train Safety the Hard Way
HEBER CITY, Utah - Three children and an adult were treated for minor injuries after an empty, runaway railroad car crashed into the Heber Creeper, which was carrying pupils on a train safety field trip.
About 270 fourth-graders from schools in Salt Lake County and Price and their chaperones were aboard the train, said Nate McDonald, spokesman for Heber Valley Historic Railroad.
They had been on the train for about 45 minutes Tuesday afternoon when it stopped at Soldier Hollow to switch engines, McDonald said.
A lone railroad car that had somehow gotten onto the tracks then hit the train, "slightly derailing" the last car, and knocking over some of the passengers, he said.
The adult who was injured suffered a sprained ankle. One child was cut on the head, and the other two children suffered bumps and bruises. The four were treated at a hospital and released.
Railroad officials did not know how the empty car got loose.
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