Fatal Truck/Train Collision Near Sawyer

| 4/4/2012

The Highway Patrol says a truck driver was killed in a collision with a train near Sawyer on Tuesday afternoon. They say a semi crossed the tracks and was hit on the driver`s side. The train had its lights on and the horn was blaring.

It carried the truck about a quarter of a mile before it stopped.

The driver`s name hasn`t been released but the Highway Patrol says he was 50 years old and from Sawyer.

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