The driver of a pickup truck that caused a commuter train to derail in Southern California has been arrested.

Police arrested the Arizona man for allegedly abandoning his commercial pickup on train tracks, which was then struck by a commuter train injuring dozens of people, according to a CBS News report.

The Metrolink train, which was headed for Los Angeles, collided with the truck in Oxnard in the early morning hours on Tuesday, causing three of the five cars to fall over and 30 people to be sent to hospitals, four in critical conditions, according to the report.

The truck was pushed 300 feet by the train, according to the National Transportation Safety Board, which is handling the investigation.

Although Robert Sumwalt of the NTSB said that the agency typically doesn’t investigate non-fatal grade crossings, “this one was unusual enough to warrant it,” he said according to the report.

The NTSB has sent video and data recorders for analysis to Washington, D.C.

Police tracked down the driver, 54-y-earold Jose Alejandro Sanchez-Ramirez, about one and a half miles from the crossing 45 minutes after the crash occurred. He was described as disoriented in the report.

Sanchez-Ramirez was apparently driving the pickup with an empty bed while pulling a trailer carrying welding equipment, and he tried to turn right at the intersection but got his truck stuck on the rails as the crossing arm came down. His wife reported that he jumped out when he saw the train coming, and that the crash wasn’t his fault.

A local lawyer who will represent Sanchez-Ramirez also claimed that the truck was stuck, and that once he saw the train coming he had to leave his truck. He added that Sanchez-Ramirez was “caught in a tragic situation with no way to stop the oncoming tragedy.”