Grand Island, NE : Two-vehicle accident ends with car on tracks on Thursday 25th August, 2016

A Dodge Charger driven by Tiana Zuehlke of Grand Island came to rest on Union Pacific Railroad tracks east of Grand Island following a two-vehicle accident Thursday morning.
The accident took place at 10:14 a.m. on Highway 30, three and a half miles east of Stuhr Road.
Zuehlke, 33, received serious head and chest injuries in the crash, said Jean Loudy, a communications specialist with the Nebraska State Patrol.
Zuehlke was transported by ambulance following the accident. CHI Health St. Francis had no record of her admission on Thursday.
She was eastbound on Highway 30 in a black 2010 Charger that collided with a gray 2007 GMC Yukon. The westbound vehicle was driven by Loren Schuett, 72, of Grand Island.
Zuehlke’s vehicle went left of the center line into the westbound lane, Loudy said.
Schuett took evasive action because Zuehlke’s vehicle was coming at him head on, Loudy said. As Schuett’s vehicle headed toward the ditch, the Charger struck Schuett’s vehicle on the driver’s side.
The Charger then went into the ditch and rolled several times, she said.
“She went 600 feet,” State Patrol Sgt. Pat Benson said at the scene. He said the driver was the only person in the vehicle. The car wound up on its side, lying on the tracks.
Schuett was not injured.
“He told us that he saw the vehicle in his lane, he slowed, he went to the right, she hit him on the driver’s-side door,” Benson said.
The location of the accident, at mile marker 320, is a mile east of the Hall-Merrick county line, nine miles south of Worms.
No one has been cited in the accident. Benson said the cause of the crash has not yet been determined.
Both drivers were wearing their seat belts.
Grand Island police could not confirm if the accident was related to a welfare check earlier in the morning.
No trains were involved in the crash, but U.P. halted train traffic during the accident cleanup and investigation.
In addition to the State Patrol, the Grand Island Rural Fire Department and Merrick County Sheriff’s Department responded to the accident.

Source :
http://www.theindependent.com/news/local/two-vehicle-accident-ends-with-car-on-tracks/article_03d18b52-6af0-11e6-8168-6f645e430b53.html