Woman dies after crash involving train and SUV

BONNEVILLE COUNTY — A female has died aft nan conveyance she was successful was pushed disconnected train tracks and went down an embankment.

The incident happened Wednesday astir 5 p.m. adjacent nan intersection of 65th South and South Yellowstone Highway successful Bonneville County.

Deputies and Idaho Falls firefighters were called to a “vehicle vs. train crash” and erstwhile they arrived, witnesses were helping a 48-year-old SUV driver.

Fire crews extricated nan female from nan conveyance and transported her to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center, wherever she later died owed to her injuries, a news merchandise from nan Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office said. 

Witnesses told deputies nan SUV was stopped connected nan tracks betwixt nan crossing arms and backmost from nan extremity ray astatine nan intersection facing westbound.

A northbound Union Pacific train had activated emergency braking procedures and its horn astir a 4th mile earlier nan crossing but was incapable to extremity earlier hitting nan vehicle, nan news merchandise said. 

Nobody other was wrong nan conveyance isolated from for nan woman. No different injuries were reported and her sanction has not been released.

Deputies reminded drivers and pedestrians to beryllium observant astir trains, railroad crossings, and tracks. 

“Trains tin run astatine immoderate clip of nan time aliases nighttime and person nan correct of measurement astatine almost each crossings…always enactment backmost from nan tracks down lights and crossing arms and painted extremity lines to let clearance for nan train to travel through. Obey blinking reddish crossing lights by stopping and looking some directions earlier you cross, and ne'er thrust astir crossing arms,” nan sheriff’s agency said.