Caledonia police: Three trains forced to stop after 53-year-old man drove his vehicle onto tracks
CALEDONIA -- Caledonia police say a driver drove onto train tracks on Monday evening, November 30th -- and that led to the delay of two Amtrak trains and a freight train, which had to be stopped on the tracks.
Police say a 53-year-old Mount Pleasant man turned onto the tracks, thinking they were a road. He was arrested on suspicion of alcohol-related drunk driving.
He was the only occupant of his vehicle.
The vehicle had to be towed from the tracks -- and police say two Amtrak trains and a freight train were stopped on the tracks as a result of this incident.
The vehicle drove onto the tracks near Northwestern Avenue and Highway K in Caledonia.
The trains on the tracks did not strike the vehicle.
Police did not have a timetable as to when the trains would be able to begin moving again.
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