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> Kembla Grange train crash: driver trapped after train hits car and derails near Wollongong

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> A derailed passenger train after it hit a car on a level crossing in Kembla Grange, NSW, on Wednesday morning Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

> A passenger train has partially derailed on a track near Wollongong, south of Sydney https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/sydney, with reports it hit a car before the front carriage overturned.

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> Emergency services at the scene said the driver of the train had been trapped, while nine passengers had been helped off the train.

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> Ambulance officials said four people, including the driver and a guard, were taken to hospital. All had minor injuries and were in a stable condition.

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> The four-car train partially derailed at Kembla Grange about 4.15am.

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> Chief Inspector Norm Rees from NSW Ambulance said: “It was a chaotic scene when emergency services first arrived, with the front carriage completely off the tracks and on its side and the second tilting.

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> “The train had brought down power lines which were draped over the carriages and, when you see all that, it’s lucky there weren’t more serious injuries to those onboard.

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> “With the first car on its side the driver was trapped by confinement but paramedics worked hand in hand with NSW Fire and Rescue and NSW police to get him out and treated.

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> “When you hear train derailment your first thought is whether it’s a freight train or passenger train and when it was reported to be a passenger train, you immediately start to think worst-case scenario. Thankfully the injuries sustained by the two passengers and two employees were minor.”

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> Fire and Rescue NSW said on Twitter: “A northbound four car passenger train has derailed with the front carriage detached and on its side. Ten passengers have been assisted from the train with no reported injuries. The train’s driver remains in the overturned carriage with rescue under way.”

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> About 6.40am Fire and Rescue said the train driver had been freed from the train and taken to hospital.

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> Transport authorities have laid on buses.

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