WINNESHIEK COUNTY, Iowa — The name of the man who was killed after his tractor was hit by a train in Winneshiek County Monday afternoon has been released.
At around 2:32 p.m. the Winneshiek County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a crash involving a train and a tractor by the intersection of Highway 24 and 128th Street, between Fort Atkinson and Jackson Junction.
According to a crash report from the sheriff’s office, a tractor hauling an empty grain bin began to cross the train tracks and the driver didn’t see the train coming until the last second when he attempted to stop. The train conductor told deputies that despite applying the train’s brakes, the train crashed into the tractor, the crash report states.
The collision caused the tractor to split in half, with the front axle and engine ending up on the west side of the railroad tracks and the cab and grain wagon ending up on the east side, the crash report states.
According to the sheriff’s office, the driver of the tractor died from his injuries at the scene of the crash. The driver has been identified as 60-year-old Carl Adolf Kuhn from Fort Atkinson.
An investigation into the crash, conducted by the sheriff’s office and Canadian Pacific Railway, is ongoing.
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