MN Man Crawls Off Wheelchair Before Collision With Train

WINNEBAGO, MN — A 57-year-old man from Winnebago is alive after his electric wheelchair became stuck on train tracks in the city.

On Tuesday at about 12:30 p.m., a man was going north on the sidewalk off Highway 169 when the wheelchair got stuck between railroad tracks.

The man was able to crawl off of the wheelchair and away from the tracks before the BNSF train hit his wheelchair.

The man was treated for non-life-threatening injuries at the United Hospital District in Blue Earth.