VICTOR, Iowa — A freight train collided with a semi-truck in eastern Iowa Wednesday afternoon, resulting in one death and leaving another person seriously hurt, law enforcement officials reported.
The collision happened where a state highway crosses the Iowa Interstate Railroad tracks in a rural location approximately 70 miles east of Des Moines, Poweshiek County Sheriff Matt Maschmann confirmed.
“One person in the semi-truck died and another was transported with serious injuries,” Maschmann stated in an official release.
The impact caused seventeen rail cars and two locomotive engines to leave the tracks, resulting in “significant damage” to the railroad infrastructure, the sheriff reported. Photos from the crash site revealed a large pile of overturned train cars with smoke rising from the wreckage.
Iowa State Patrol spokesman Sgt. Alex Dinkla confirmed that no dangerous materials were released during the incident.
