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Commuter train hits truck in South Weymouth; No injuries

A commuter rail train at North Station. Keith Bedford / Boston Globe Staff, File

SOUTH WEYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — A commuter train hit a truck that was left on train tracks in South Weymouth.

No injuries have been reported.

Joe Pesaturo, spokesman for the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, says the train on the Kingston/Plymouth line hit the truck at about 7:30 a.m. Monday. He says no one was in the truck at the time, and that the crossing was undamaged.

Transit Police Superintendent Richard Sullivan tells The Boston Globe that the truck broke down on the tracks.

He says an investigation is ongoing.