Woman’s Wrong Turn Leads to Train-Car Collision in Red Wing
Red Wing, MN (KROC-AM News) - The Red Wing Police Department responded to a crash involving a freight train and a passenger vehicle this morning.
A news release indicates the incident was reported just after 10:30 AM on Levee Road in an area north of the Red Wing Train Depot. Officials say a pedestrian flagged down an on-duty police Sergeant and reported that there was a vehicle on the tracks.
Seconds later, the news release says a Canadian Pacific Railway train collided with the car, which was unoccupied at the time. The 32-year-old woman who had been driving the vehicle told Red Wing police that she accidentally drove down the railroad tracks when she attempted to turn onto Levee Road from Broad Street in downtown Red Wing.
Officials say it took approximately two hours to clear the wreckage from the tracks. No injuries were reported.
It was the second collision involving a Canadian Pacific Railway train and a passenger vehicle in southeastern Minnesota in recent weeks. On November 16, a train crashed into a car at a crossing in St. Charles in the collision that claimed the life of an elderly Dover man.
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