Fatal truck / train crash in Northwest Missouri
09/28/2020

(KLZA)--A Clarinda, Iowa man died following a wreck involving a Mack truck and a train Saturday afternoon, south of Rock Port. 

The Missouri Highway Patrol reports 52-year-old Troy Landess was eastbound  in the truck on a private levy access road, attempting to cross a private railroad crossing controlled only by a STOP sign.  The truck was struck in the front passenger side by a Burlington Northern Santa Fe locomotive.

Landess was partially ejected from the truck, which ame to rest down an embankment.  

Landess was transported by the Atchison / Holt EMS to the Nemaha County Hospital in Auburn where he was pronounced dead.

The wreck was reported around 2:30. 


 


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