Driver of pickup truck hospitalized after crash with train

Vigo Co. Sheriff photo

By Lucy Perry
Indiana Central News

A Terre Haute man suffered non life- threatening injuries when his pickup truck was struck by a train in Vigo County this morning.

​ Jerod T. Forrest was eastbound on Davis Drive, east of Erie Canal, in a white Ford Ranger around 10:20 a.m., when responding deputies say he failed to slow down for a set of railroad tracks.

As Forrest was approaching a the tracks, the stop arms where down, according to the report.

"Forrest attempted to go around the stop arms, when he was struck by a train," Lt. Brian DeHart, of the Vigo County Sheriff's Office, said.

Forrest was treated at the scene and then transported to a local hospital for treatment of his injuries.