Video Shows Train Colliding With Semi Truck In Minnesota

Three people walked away with only minor injuries after a train struck a tractor-trailer in Minnesota on Friday, authorities said.

The Brown County Sheriff’s Office said the collision occurred shortly after 2 p.m. Friday in Sleepy Eye, and deputies responded to the scene along with Sleepy Eye Ambulance, the Sleepy Eye Fire Department and the Minnesota State Patrol.

A video shared by the sheriff’s office shows a 1996 International Harvester semi tractor-trailer combination traveling westbound on US Highway 14, parallel to a train track, before attempting to make a right turn into a business. A Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railroad train can be seen approaching just as the semi truck turns to cross over the tracks.

The train can be seen crashing into the truck’s grain trailer, blowing it apart into pieces.

The driver of the truck, identified as 24-year-old Robert Thomas Jewett, and the occupants of the train, identified as 56-year-old Jeffrey Alan Schafer and 57-year-old Thomas Herman Behsman, were all treated at the scene for minor injuries, the sheriff’s office said.

The sheriff’s office is reminding drivers to slow down, stop, listen and look both ways at railroad crossings, and to “have patience.”