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Driver freed without charges in California train crash

(AP) — Federal investigators said a pickup truck driver who turned on to railroad tracks before a crash that derailed a California commuter train made a "mistake," while prosecutors released him from jail as they considered whether to pursue criminal charges. Jose Alejandro Sanchez-Ramirez, 54, of Yuma, Arizona, was released from jail late Thursday night, accompanied by relatives and covering his head with a jacket as television cameras focused on him. Bamieh said his client accidentally turned onto the tracks and made repeated attempts to get the vehicle off the rails, then ran for his life as the train approached. In 2010, a driver accidentally turned onto the tracks, was struck by a Metrolink train and injured, federal records show. Totten said, however, that the Oxnard Police Department acted properly in arresting Sanchez-Ramirez for investigation of leaving the scene of an injury accident.

 

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