Victim Identified in Fatal Truck vs. Train Crash
MCDAVITT TOWNSHIP, Minn. – The St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office has identified the victim in the fatal truck vs. train crash as 40-year-old Adam Eugene Newton of Grand Rapids.
The Sheriff’s Office says Newton was driving a truck for Norland Environmental Services at the time of the crash.
On Wednesday, authorities were called to the intersection of Sax Road and Highway 7 on reports that a CN Freight train had struck a commercial vehicle.
Authorities arrived on scene and found Newton unconscious in the ditch north of the intersection. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The accident remains under investigation.
