Crash leaves engineer seriously injured after being pinned between truck, train car
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Union Pacific Railroad engineer is in the hospital with serious injuries Sunday morning following a late-night crash involving a truck and train in Kansas City.
According to the Kansas City Police Department, just before 9:45 p.m., officers and emergency responders were called to the area of Guinotte Avenue and Chestnut Trafficway — a little over a half-mile north of the Pendleton Heights neighborhood — for a serious-injury crash.
Initial investigations revealed that a Union Pacific remote-controlled train had been traveling eastbound on the rail tracks with an engineer on the rear platform of the last tanker train car when a Ford Transit Van, driving southbound on Prospect Avenue, drove around the railroad crossing arms and blocked the tracks.
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The van was then hit by the tanker car, forcing it to spin 90 degrees and pinning the engineer between the train car and the van.
According to KCPD, the engineer was taken to a hospital with serious injuries, and the driver of the van was uninjured in the crash.
This is a developing story. Stay tuned to FOX4 News for the latest updates and information.
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