Two hurt in train, car crash
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-Messenger photo by Bill Shea
Emergency personnel work at the scene Sunday afternoon after a train and a car collided at the grade crossing on Lincoln Street in Gowrie. Two people in the car were seriously injured. One of them was airlifted to a hospital in Des Moines.
-Messenger photo by Bill Shea
Emergency personnel work at the scene Sunday afternoon after a train and a car collided at the grade crossing on Lincoln Street in Gowrie. Two people in the car were seriously injured. One of them was airlifted to a hospital in Des Moines.
GOWRIE — Two people were seriously injured when the car they were in collided with a freight train in Gowrie Sunday afternoon.
The collision happened at about 3 p.m. at the grade crossing on Lincoln Street.
One of the injured people was airlifted to a Des Moines hospital by a LifeFlight helicopter that landed at the Southeast Valley High School football field.
The other was taken by ambulance to UnityPoint Health — Trinity Regional Medical Center in Fort Dodge.
The collision involved a Hyundai sedan and a northbound Union Pacific Railroad grain train with three locomotives. Following the collision, part of the stopped train completely blocked Iowa Highway 175.
The collision remains under investigation by the Iowa State Patrol.
The Gowrie police and fire departments, Southwest Webster Emergency Medical Service, Webster County sheriff’s deputies and an ambulance from the Fort Dodge Fire Department responded.
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