A passenger on board the Amtrak train that hit a tractor-trailer says the collision caused the trailer to split in two.
Lamont Lilly was traveling from Durham, North Carolina, to New York when his train hit the vehicle Thursday. Lilly says he was eating lunch near the front of the train when he felt a jolt, heard the brakes screech and smelled smoke.
He says he could see from his window that the trailer had been split in half. He says he never saw the driver.
Lilly says passengers have not been allowed off the train.
Amtrak spokeswoman Kimberly Woods says 267 passengers were on the train when it hit the trailer near the North Carolina and Virginia border. No injuries have been reported.