At least five people have been taken to hospitals after a Metra train and an Amtrak train were involved in a low-speed collision at Union Station this morning, a Fire Department spokesman said.
An Emergency Medical Services Plan 2 was called around 8:30 a.m., sending at least 10 ambulances to the scene.
An inbound express Metra Burlington Northern train from Aurora coming into Union Station on Track 2 hit a parked train, said passenger Kirk Musselman. He estimated the Metra train was going about 5 mph.
"There were blown widows, blown glass" on his car, which was the fourth or fifth car back on the train, he said. He said the corner of his car and perhaps one or two others hit the parked train on a track alongside.
Musselman said he suffered a knee injury and some other passengers were hurt.
Another passenger, Matt Sink, said he was in one of the last cars of the Metra train when there was a "real big jolt."
"It's kind of like a movie," he told WGN Radio, with helicopters overhead and fire trucks surrounding the station and firefighters going through the cars. "It was just an ordinary Friday, I was reading the paper, then a real big jolt."
But Sink said he didn't realize his train had struck another until his wife texted him. "I have not seen any serious injuries," he said
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