ONE INJURED WHEN TRAIN HITS GARBAGE TRUCK

One injured when train hits garbage truck

An Amtrak train hit a garbage truck near Albia Wednesday morning (10/27), sending the truck driver to the hospital with serious injuries.  The Iowa State Patrol says the accident happened around 11:30am at a railroad crossing on 160th Street, northeast of Albia.  The driver of the garbage truck, 33-year-old Kyle Vincent Redinger of Fairfield, was ejected from his vehicle and was airlifted to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.  The train’s engineer, 49-year-old Jennifer Harvey of Gretna, Nebraska, suffered minor injuries and refused treatment.  No passenger on the train was injured.

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