CHESAPEAKE, Va. — A man was severely injured after the septic truck he was driving was hit by a train at a crossing in Chesapeake Thursday, police say.
On Thursday afternoon around 4 p.m., Chesapeake police responded to the 2900 block of Yadkin Road on the report of a vehicle and train crash. Officers say they found an overturned septic truck as a result of the crash, and the driver was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Video taken by Azariah O'Daniel sent to News 3 shows the train hitting the septic truck causing waste to spill everywhere, which police said is not dangerous to the public.
The crash remains under investigation, but police say the truck drove through a stop sign onto the tracks.
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