Driver can’t beat train coming down track in Grandview

Posted 11:17 am, July 7, 2016, by FOX 4 Newsroom

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Courtesy: Grandview Fire Dept.

GRANDVIEW, Mo. — The driver of a work van escaped injury after a train hit the driver’s work van Thursday morning in downtown Grandview. The driver was trying to cross the tracks at 5th and Main at about 8:30 a.m., when the train crashed into it.

Grandview Fire Chief Ron Graham says the driver is ‘very, very lucky.’

Pictures courtesy of the Grandview Fire Department.