CHICAGO (Fox 32 News) - Police remember the moment an Amtrak train crashed into a truck in Bourbonnais, killing eleven people and injuring 122 others.https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/20-ye ... onnais.amp
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Bourbonnais Crash 25 Years Later
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There was a report at the time that the truck driver, as he was helped from his cab after the crash, was heard to mutter that he "didn't know it was the fast one." I think it was found that he drove around the lowered gates.