MAHNOMEN CO., Minn. (KVRR) — The sheriff’s office in Mahnomen County and White Earth Police had to investigate after a crash between a BNSF train and a road grader. It happened Monday afternoon just after 4 in Island Lake Township, northeast of Mahnomen. The responding deputy determined that the road grader had not cleared the tracks in time and the…
BECKER CO., Minn. (KVRR) — The person hit and killed by an eastbound BNSF train between Audubon and Detroit Lakes on Monday has been identified. Becker County Sheriff’s Office says he is 41-year-old Ryan Goroski of Audubon. They got a report of the incident around 1:30 Monday morning. First responders arrived to find Goroski had died at the scene. The…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — The man hit and killed by a passing train in downtown Fargo last week is identified as 35-year-old Matthew Scott. Police say he is not from the area. Emergency crews responded to the 400 block of Broadway just after midnight Friday after BNSF train operators told them a person was hit on the tracks. Scott died…
FOSSTON, Minn.–A BNSF train collided with a pick-up in Fosston shortly before 9 a.m. on Tuesday. The Polk County Sheriff’s office says the crash happened on Highway 2 Southeast and 360th Avenue. Fifty-two-year-old Todd Jevning and a 17-year-old passenger were in the pick-up when it was struck. The BNSF and the pick-up sustained minor damage, but no one was injured…
STUTSMAN COUNTY, N.D. (KFGO) – A Stutsman County man was arrested for allegedly firing a high caliber rifle at a passing train near his home on Friday night. Sheriff Chad Kaiser says a BNSF train crew reported the gunfire as it passed by Bloom, just east of Jamestown. The crew also provided a photo of a bullet hole near the…
ECKELSON, N.D. – A 4-year-old boy escaped serious injury after a westbound BNSF train struck the boy who was standing on a railroad track in Eckelson, about 20 miles west of Valley City. The Barnes County Sheriff’s office said the engineer applied the emergency brake to slow the train down, before the front of the engine struck the boy and…
