A truck driver has died after a freight train slammed into his semi-trailer rig as it was crossing tracks in Eastern Washington.
Emergency personnel responded to the scene, near Plymouth in Benton County, at about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday after receiving reports of a train derailment.
Officials told KEPR-TV News that responders found what was left of a semi attached to the first train engine in flames.
Medics found the driver, 66-year-old Ronald Slagg, to be critically injured. He was airlifted to the hospital but died from his injuries Wednesday evening.