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AP News StoryLOS ANGELES (AP) -- A commuter train slammed into a car at a crossing in front of the University of Southern California on Saturday, seriously injuring the driver and the train's operator. Nineteen passengers on the train suffered lesser injuries.
The train was heading east toward downtown shortly before 11 a.m. when authorities said it appeared the car's driver didn't see it and tried to make a left turn across the tracks from a major thoroughfare.
The car, a silver Hyundai, was all but demolished. The first two of the train's four cars slightly derailed, but they remained upright....
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