( CNN ) -- About 30 passengers suffered `` minor to moderate '' injures when an Amtrak passenger train collided with a truck near Hanford , California , Monday afternoon , a sheriff 's spokesman said . `` It was a traffic collision with a big rig and an Amtrak train which collided , '' Kings County Assistant Sheriff Dave Putnam said . `` The big rig hauling cotton failed to yield . '' There were 11 people with moderate injuries and 19 with minor injuries , according to Kings County EMS Director Dan Lynch . Thirteen ambulances arrived at the scene to take the injured hospitals , Lynch said . Were you there ? Share your stories , images and videos . `` At about 12:25 p.m. Pacific Time , a semi tractor-trailer rig drove into the side of an Amtrak train at a public railroad crossing equipped with warning lights , bells and gates , south of Hanford , California , '' an Amtrak statement said . About 169 passengers and four crew members were on Train 712 , which was traveling south from Oakland to Bakersfield , California , Amtrak said . Three of the four train cars left the tracks , Putnam said . The last two cars of the train were at a 45-degree angle to the track , while the third from the end was standing at a 65-degree angle , he said . `` It was a fairly high speed collision which caused the train to derail and stop about a half mile south of the initial hit , '' Putnam said . iReport : Photos capture 'Carmageddon ' bridge collapse . Emergency workers were working to stop diesel fuel that was spilling from the engine , he said . Unhurt passengers board school buses for a rode to the town 's civic center Amtrak arranges for their transportation to Bakersfield 85 miles away , he said . Hanford is about 200 miles north of Los Angeles . 'Carmageddon II ' traffic nightmare fails to materialize in L.A. Self-driving cars now legal in California . Governor signs law to make California home to nation 's first truly high-speed rail . CNN 's Amanda Watts contributed to this report .
NEW:169 passengers and four crew members were on the southbound train , Amtrak says . `` A big rig and an Amtrak train ... collided , '' a sheriff 's spokesman says . The crash happened at about 8:45 a.m. in rural eastern Kentucky near the town of New Albany. `` It was a fairly high speed collision , '' an official says .