CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A log truck driver killed Friday in a collision with a train carrying 63 sightseers and four crew members on a fall foliage trek amid West Virginia’s mountains apparently ran through crossing signals, authorities said.

Twenty-three people were injured, six seriously, in the rail crossing accident with U.S. Route 250 atop Cheat Mountain, officials said.

The accident occurred during prime leaf-watching season.

Randolph County Sheriff Mark Brady said two of the train’s passenger cars flipped on their sides after impact at a rail crossing on a mountain highway, the log truck was a “total loss” and the truck driver who was alone in his vehicle was pronounced dead at the site.

Big, heavy logs lay piled about the scene.

The Durbin & Greenbrier Railroad operates several trains in the area, including the Cheat Mountain Salamander that runs in October on a 6.5-hour trip.