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Two Grade Crossing Accidents Same Day Same Train

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Two Grade Crossing Accidents Same Day Same Train
Posted by Victrola1 on Monday, January 14, 2013 11:08 AM

Two separate car-train accidents involving the same train happened on Sunday afternoon in Floyd County, with two people being taken to the hospital. The Floyd County Sheriff’s Department says 20-year-old Cole Leitch of Forest City was southbound about a mile west of Rudd when he failed to yield at a railroad crossing, with the vehicle being struck by a westbound Canadian Pacific train.

http://www.radioiowa.com/2013/01/14/one-train-involved-in-two-accidents-in-floyd-county/

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Posted by BaltACD on Monday, January 14, 2013 4:41 PM

Victrola1

Two separate car-train accidents involving the same train happened on Sunday afternoon in Floyd County, with two people being taken to the hospital. The Floyd County Sheriff’s Department says 20-year-old Cole Leitch of Forest City was southbound about a mile west of Rudd when he failed to yield at a railroad crossing, with the vehicle being struck by a westbound Canadian Pacific train.

http://www.radioiowa.com/2013/01/14/one-train-involved-in-two-accidents-in-floyd-county/

Uncommon, but not that unusual.

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Posted by John WR on Monday, January 14, 2013 5:54 PM

In the second accident the driver and a passenger had to be removed from their car with the jaws of life and were then transported to a hospital.  

Nothing is known about the driver or any other people involved in the first accident because the driver left the scene of the accident and has not been found.

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