Active voice first.
“A car on the train tracks caused an East LA Metro train to derail”
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Edit1: Wow, so many updoots!
Edit2: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
Active voice first.
“A car on the train tracks caused an East LA Metro train to derail”
Fair enough but establishing a causative form is critical here. As written, the train is to blame for striking the car in the same way a car is to blame for striking the pedestrian.