By Helena Wegner / McClatchy News
An Amtrak engineer was nearly impaled after a train struck a fallen tree as a powerful storm hit Washington, the railroad company said.
The incident happened at about 7:50 p.m. Tuesday in Silvana, a spokesperson for Amtrak said in a release.
The Amtrak Cascades train was carrying 48 passengers from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Seattle when it hit a fallen tree on the tracks, the company said.
The tree pierced the windshield, narrowly missing the engineer controlling the cart, a photo shows.
Although no one was injured, the engineer was still taken to a hospital for an evaluation before being released, the company said.
Passengers were given other transportation.
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