PORTAGE (WKZO-AM/FM) — Three people on board a minivan that tangled with a freight train at the Garden Lane Crossing in Portage last night may be lucky to be alive.
Police suspect the driver may have tried to beat the train over the tracks, because witnesses heard the bells at the crossing long before they heard the crash before 10 p.m. Portage Public Safety said a 22-year-old woman requried treatment for non-life threatening injuries, but the other two were not injured.
They managed to get most of the way across the tracks. The train hit the van in the rear quarter panel.
The vehicle spun around, but wasn’t crushed.
