A woman’s wrong turn leads to a train-car collision in Red Wing

Red Wing, MN (KROC-AM News) – Red Wing Police responded to an accident between a freight train and a passenger vehicle this morning.

A news release states the incident was reported shortly after 10:30 a.m. on Levee Road in an area north of the Red Wing Train Depot. Officials said a pedestrian flagged down an on-duty police officer and reported that a vehicle was on the tracks.

Seconds later, the press release states that a Canadian Pacific Railway train collided with the carriage, which was unoccupied at the time. The 32-year-old woman who was driving the vehicle told Red Wing police that she accidentally drove over the train tracks while trying to turn onto Levee Road from Broad Street in downtown Red Wing.

According to officials, it took about two hours to clear the debris from the tracks. No injuries were reported.

It was the second collision between a Canadian Pacific Railway train and a passenger vehicle in southeastern Minnesota in recent weeks. On Nov. 16, a train collided with a car at a crossing in St. Charles, killing an elderly Dover man.

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