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State Patrol IDs people in train-car collision

Colo residents seriously injured

-Messenger photo by Bill Shea
A Union Pacific Railroad employee examines a 2016 Hyundai Sonata Sunday afternoon after it collided with a northbound grain train in Gowrie. The two people in the car were seriously hurt.

GOWRIE — Two Colo residents were seriously injured Sunday when their car collided with a Union Pacific Railroad train in Gowrie.

Mary Harrison, 62, was airlifted to Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, according to the Iowa State Patrol. She was picked up by a LifeFlight helicopter that landed at the Southeast Valley High School football field.

Dirk Janssen, 45, was taken to UnityPoint Health – Trinity Regional Medical Center by a Southwest Webster Emergency Medical Service ambulance, troopers reported.

Updates on the condition of Harrison and Janssen were not available Monday afternoon.

The State Patrol reported that the crash happened at 3:21 p.m. at the grade crossing on Lincoln Street.

Troopers reported that Janssen was driving a 2016 Hyundai Sonata eastbound on Lincoln Street when it collided with the northbound train.

The train had three locomotives and a long string of grain cars that blocked Iowa Highway 175 south of Gowrie following the collision.

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