Tractor collides with train near Phillips

 Deputy Peters gives info on wreck at railroad crossing

The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department, Nebraska State Patrol and Phillips Fire and Rescue personnel are shown at the scene near a railroad crossing where a tractor collided with a train on Thursday afternoon.
The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department, Nebraska State Patrol and Phillips Fire and Rescue personnel are shown at the scene near a railroad crossing where a tractor collided with a train on Thursday afternoon.

A tractor collided with a train at a crossing on North F Road between West 14 and 15 Roads Thursday afternoon leaving the driver of the tractor critically injured. Hamilton County Sheriff Deputy Connor Peters, who was at the scene of the wreck, gave a breakdown on what happened. “The tractor would have been southbound on that road, came up to a stop sign, according to the train conductor,” Peters …