MENOMINEE COUNTY, MI— A Menominee Township woman is lucky to be alive after her vehicle hit a train last Wednesday.
At approximately 3:38 p.m., the Menominee County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to Elmwood Road #4, west of US-41, on a report of an overturned pickup.
Deputies located the heavily damaged vehicle and determined it had collided with a train near the intersection of Evergreen Road #3 and Bay de Noc Drive.
The driver and sole occupant of the vehicle, a 31-year-old Menominee Township woman, had to be extricated from her truck. She was taken to Aurora Medical Center-Bay Area for treatment and eventually released.
The driver was cited for disobeying a traffic control device.
Assisting in the incident were the Menominee Police Department, Department of Natural Resources, Menominee-Ingallston Fire Department, Aurora Bay Area ambulance, Emergency Rescue Squad, Canadian National Railway, and Menominee County 911.
