No one was injured when an Amtrak train crashed into a disabled car on the Merritt Street crossing in Odin early Tuesday morning. The driver of the car, Adam Jourdan of Sandoval, saw the train coming and was able to get out of the vehicle. Odin Fire Chief Greg Smith says both Jourdan and all 150 aboard the train escaped injury. "What we can get from the driver, we believed he ran off the crossing grade, that caused him to blow his passenger front tire. Naturally he wasn't able to back up or go forward either way and was stuck there. He was trying to call 911 when he noticed the train was approaching and exited his vehicle. He was not injured and no one else was injured," Smith said. Smith says the train had just left Centralia and was northbound to Chicago when the crash occurred at 4:25 Tuesday morning. The train was delayed about an hour and a half, but was then allowed to continue on its trip. Odin Firemen provided emergency lighting for police handling the wreck.
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