Carmel, Iowa — A Sioux Center man was taken to the hospital after his semi and a railroad locomotive tangled near Carmel.
According to the Sioux County Sheriff’s Office, 59-year-old Harvard Sandbulte of Sioux Center was driving a 2015 International Prostar semi-truck pulling a flatbed trailer loaded with hay bales eastbound on 360th Street when he struck a northbound BNSF Railway locomotive in the railroad crossing.
Jamie Van Voorst with the Sioux County Sheriff’s Office tells us about it.
The train consisted of two locomotives on the front, one on the rear, and 103 loaded grain railcars.
The Sioux Center Ambulance took Sandbulte to Sioux Center Health. His injuries were described as “minor.”
The train sustained an estimated $100,000 in damage.
Sandbulte was cited for failure to stop at a railroad crossing, says Van Voorst.
The sheriff’s office says the Sioux Center Fire Department and Sioux Center Ambulance Squad assisted on the scene.
