Train Involved in Two Missouri Truck Accidents in Same Day

Lee's Summit, MOA Missouri truck accident left one man in the intensive care unit after a train struck his vehicle.

span itemprop="image" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject" style="display:block">A 44-year-old man traveling from Lee's Summit, Missouri, to St. Louis drove around a crossing barrier at the railroad tracks at Thompson Drive and Hamblen Road, according to Mike Childs with the Lee's Summit Police Department. A train hit the rear of the vehicle and sheared it in half, reports the Kansas City Star. The impact caused the driver to be thrown 40 feet from the pickup truck. In addition, the train pushed the mangled truck about 100 yards, according to Childs.

The driver was taken to the hospital and placed in the intensive care unit, but he is expected to survive, authorities told the news source.

About two hours after the incident, the same train was involved in another Missouri truck accident when it hit the bumper of vehicle that was parked too close to the tracks. A maintenance worker was spraying weeds from inside his truck when it was hit. He was not injured, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol.

"In both cases today, the incidents were avoidable by these drivers," Marc Magliari, an Amtrak spokesman, told the news source.