WHEN WERE A NOT ON THE AIR NEW AT 5 INVESTIGATORS ARE LOOKING INTO A DEADLY CRASH BETWEEN AN SU .U IN AN AMTRAK TRN,AI IT HAPPENED THIS MORNING. JUST WEST OF MONROE COUNTY TOWN OF AVERY. THAT’S ABOUT 70 MILES SOUEATHST OF DES MOINES. THE IOWA STATE PATROL SAYS MELINDA STEWART OF ALBIA WAS KILLED WHEN THE SUV SHE WAS DRIVING WAS HIT AT THE RAILROAD CROSSING ALONG 695TH AVENUE. NOBODY ON THE TRAIN WAS INJURED NOW, THIS IS HIS SECDON TIME IN LESS THAN SIX MONTHS THAT AN AMTRAK TRAIN HAS COLLIDED WITH ETH VEHICLE CROSSING THOSE TRACKS IN THAT VERY SAME AREA. BACK IN OCTOBER A TRAIN HIT A GARBAGE TRUCK JUST A COUPLE OF MILES AWAY. THE GARBAGE TCKRU
Iowa woman killed in Amtrak train crash
An Iowa woman has died after her car was hit by an Amtrak passenger train.The crash occurred at the intersection of 165th Street and 695th Avenue about 7 miles northeast of Albia. According to Iowa State Patrol Sgt. Alex Dinkla, the single occupant of the vehicle, 58-year-old Melinda Stewart of Albia, Iowa, was pronounced dead at the scene. There are no reported injuries from the occupants of the train.This is the second time in three months that an Amtrak train has collided with a car crossing the tracks in the same area. Back in October, a train hit a garbage truck.The driver was seriously injured but survived the accident. According to Sgt. Dinkla, the crash is still under investigation by the Iowa State Patrol.
An Iowa woman has died after her car was hit by an Amtrak passenger train.
The crash occurred at the intersection of 165th Street and 695th Avenue about 7 miles northeast of Albia.
According to Iowa State Patrol Sgt. Alex Dinkla, the single occupant of the vehicle, 58-year-old Melinda Stewart of Albia, Iowa, was pronounced dead at the scene. There are no reported injuries from the occupants of the train.
This is the second time in three months that an Amtrak train has collided with a car crossing the tracks in the same area. Back in October, a train hit a garbage truck.
The driver was seriously injured but survived the accident.
According to Sgt. Dinkla, the crash is still under investigation by the Iowa State Patrol.
