Dozens injured in US rail crash

A freight train loaded with logs has rolled from a side track onto a main line and hit a stationary commuter train during Boston’s rush hour, sending dozens of people to hospitals.

About 150 people were treated at the scene during the afternoon and about 80 of them were sent on to hospitals, said Lieutenant John Hutchinson of the Canton Fire Department. None of the injuries was life-threatening, he said.

The commuter train’s locomotive was not moving when it was hit by a CSX freight car that rolled about two miles from where it had been parked at a lumber yard, said Joe Pesaturo, spokesman for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

About 300 people were on the train, which had left from Boston’s South Station and was on its way to Stoughton, a southern suburb.