MBTA train collision: 2 seriously injured after car stuck on tracks during snowstorm

A MBTA commuter rail train hit a car stuck on the train tracks during a snowstorm, seriously injuring the driver and passenger.

At 4 a.m. on Monday, the driver of a 2014 Avalon got stuck on the train tracks at Brighton Street as the train was approaching. The van was unable to move in time and was hit by the train, MBTA Transit Police said Monday morning.

The driver and passenger needed to be extricated and were taken to a local hospital. They were seriously injured but officials said the injures were not life-threatening.

The Transit Police Department is still investigating.

A MBTA commuter rail train hit a car stuck on the track during a snowstorm, seriously injuring the driver and passenger.MBTA Transit Police

Around 2 p.m. on Sunday, a woman was killed after a snow plow backed into her as she walked through the MBTA's Norwood Central parking lot with her husband, according to Transit Police.

"This is an unimaginable, horrific incident," MBTA Transit Police Superintendent Richard Sullivan wrote in the email. "On behalf of the Transit Police and the entire MBTA organization, we express our most sincere condolences to the victim's family and friends."

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