MEDORA. Kan — Authorities dispatched to Medora after a car/ train accident just after 1 a.m. Wednesday in Reno County.
The Reno County Sheriff’s Department reported a southbound Union Pacific train struck a car that was stranded on the tracks at 82nd Street and Old 61 Highway.
The train’s conductor Calen Knipp told authorities they did not see the vehicle stopped on the tracks. The vehicle registered to Tawnya Sallee of Hutchinson was unoccupied, according to the sheriff’s department.
An investigation determined the driver did not navigate the turn correctly and the front two wheels of the vehicle left the roadway. The driver was unable to get the vehicle back onto the roadway, turned on the flashers and left it on the railroad tracks. Due to flooding in the area, the train was traveling about 20 miles per hour when the accident occurred.
Knipp and the train’s engineer Dean Forsberg were not injured.