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Jesse James: You Say Tomato, I Say Train Wreck

Posted Aug 13th 2009 12:15PM by TMZ Staff

Jesse James could've been a dead man yesterday afternoon when the train he was riding in collided with a semi-truck hauling a load of tomatoes.

Jesse James

Jesse and his 11-year-old son were among 279 passengers on the choo-choo as it rolled through Monterey County, California -- when it suddenly plowed through the semi which was inconveniently stopped on the tracks.

Amtrak and the California Highway Patrol confirmed no one was hurt in the ketchup-creating crash ... which would have made for some really, really awesome video.

James posted photos of the wreckage on his Twitter page, saying "This trip is turning out to be a real train wreck ... train was going 70 mph, good thing the truck wasn't Peterbuilt. Would have been Tragic."

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1. Lucky guy! Thats scary.....

Posted at 1:26PM on Aug 13th 2009 by sassy

2. Glad to hear Jesse and his son are OK, along with all the other passengers. Man you think driving a motorcycle is dangerous, think twice....Jesse stick to your bike..:)

Posted at 1:26PM on Aug 13th 2009 by Danger

3. We've stopped trains before with our bare hands. grow a pair, you maggot!

Posted at 1:35PM on Aug 13th 2009 by Private Pee Pee and Sergeant Bum Bum

4. Whoever wrote this article can't spell..Its tomatos Dan Quayle..Not Tomatoes..And it's Peterbilt not built...WOW...

Posted at 1:42PM on Aug 13th 2009 by ace mcgee

5. This would have been smashing to see

BTW I like toast and tomatoes

Posted at 1:53PM on Aug 13th 2009 by Up North

6. OMG I'm just glad the sexiest man on earth is alright!

Posted at 2:00PM on Aug 13th 2009 by fosmom

7. there was no way he could have died in this accident. TMZ, please stop exaggerating!!! High speed traing against any type of ground transportation always equals train winning.

By the way ace mcgee, that word can be spelled both ways. Tomatos is used in England, and Tomatoes in America. I can give you that maybe the author was english and we are in America, but still both ways is OK.

Posted at 11:09AM on Aug 14th 2009 by EB

8. I thought Jesse James robbed trains?

Posted at 2:14PM on Aug 13th 2009 by dummy

9. #5 - You're right about Peterbilt, but wrong about tomatoes. Anyway, great endorsement for petes!

Posted at 2:20PM on Aug 13th 2009 by vickinator 5000

10. Think again...it's tomatoes. Try spell check or the dictionary...works wonders.

Posted at 2:27PM on Aug 13th 2009 by roniangel

11. any time I hear Jesse James + train, I think of that Brady Bunch episode where Bobby dreamt he was JJ and shot everyone in the back...haha

glad he is ok and yes-it would have made an awesome video!!!

Posted at 2:32PM on Aug 13th 2009 by WV

12. Great, I suppose now they will make a episode of Jesse cheating death on a high speed train, and of course he's the only one that cheated death.

Posted at 1:47PM on Sep 1st 2009 by doug

13. How come every time I tell TMZ they spelled something wrong they correct it and then delete my post, but not this other guy's on here who told them. It is spelled Tomatoes BTW, Ace McGee.

Posted at 2:45PM on Aug 13th 2009 by Just Sayin'

14. HEY, TMZ.com do you have permisson to re-post Jesse James personal images off his twitter? How bout you take a second and add photo credit to the owner of images you have ripped off his twitter. PLEASE. http://twitter.com/frankyluckman THE semi was NOT a Peterbilt .

Posted at 3:04PM on Aug 13th 2009 by Kate

15. I'm so glad him and his son are ok but, other than that, I don't know what else to say. All I know is, I sure feel sorry for Sandra, and what she goes through with him being such a daredevil, and now this on top of it. He's such a nice guy! It's going to be sad if anything ever does happen to him.

Posted at 3:04PM on Aug 13th 2009 by anonymous

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