Train Crash

Sheriff identifies Ottertail man killed in crash with train

OTTERTAIL, Minn. – Sheriff’s officials says the pickup driver who was killed in a collision with a freight train in Otter Tail County was a local man. Sixty-year-old Joseph Lyle Mack, from Ottertail, died Thursday morning at a crossing southeast of the city. The pickup was struck on the passenger side by a northbound Canadian Pacific train. Mack was dead…

Driver and Child Narrowly Escape Train Crash in Coon Rapids

The driver saw the approaching train and made it out of the vehicle with the child.

COON RAPIDS, Minn.–Authorities say an adult and a child escaped from their car just before it was hit by a freight train and caught fire in Coon Rapids. Fire officials say the car got stuck on railroad tracks late Saturday. The driver saw the approaching train and made it out of the vehicle with the child. Firefighters kept the train…