Two avoid serious injury when train hits pickup

ABERDEEN — A driver and a rider are safe aft a collision betwixt a train and a pickup truck.

Bingham County Sheriff’s deputies were called to 1100 South 2200 West connected Monday, conscionable extracurricular of Aberdeen, wherever a conveyance hadn’t gotten disconnected nan tracks successful clip to debar an oncoming train.

According to Cpl. Van Orden of nan sheriff’s office, because nan train was moving slow enough, erstwhile it deed nan beforehand of nan vehicle, nan passengers didn’t person immoderate awesome injuries.

Both nan female driver and antheral rider were cleared to time off nan segment by ambulance services. The antheral received a insignificant trim connected his head.

The railroad crossing wherever nan conveyance was deed was uncontrolled, and Van Orden said nan driver didn’t spot nan train until it had already slowed down and was crossing nan tracks. Upon seeing nan train, nan driver attempted to reverse disconnected nan tracks but couldn’t get disconnected successful time.

The train besides deed nan conveyance astatine a sweeping angle, pushing it retired of nan way.

While nan train car only received a bent handrail successful nan collision, Van Orden said that nan truck, a mid-’90s Dodge pickup, received “significant damage.”

Van Orden said nan group who were successful nan pickup are section to nan area. Their names are not being released.

While this business ended pinch nary awesome injuries, crashes pinch trains could consequence successful superior wounded aliases death. Van Orden said drivers should ever slow down and salary attraction to nan surrounding area erstwhile crossing train tracks.

“Any clip they’re crossing railroad tracks, moreover if they’re retired successful agrarian region roads that aren’t usually traveled, you should beryllium slowing down, paying attraction some ways and past listening for their horn to forestall that benignant of a crash,” Van Orden said.