Two Floodwood men were hospitalized after the pickup truck they were in was struck by a train in Floodwood Township on Thursday afternoon.
According to the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Department, Dustin Lindquist, 23, and Clint Terry, 24, were admitted to St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth with serious but non-life threatening injuries.
According to the Sheriff’s Department, a BNSF Railway Company train hit the truck Lindquist was driving on his family’s driveway after leaving the house.
Terry was a passenger in the truck, which was overturned in the collision. The three people aboard the train were not in-jured. The accident happened shortly after 4:30 p.m. on the 11200 block of U.S. Highway 2 in Floodwood Township, where the train tracks run parallel to the highway. The accident remains under investigation.
