BOWMAN, N.D. (AP) - Authorities have identified the 89-year-old Bowman man who died after the minivan he was driving collided with a train at a rural crossing in southwestern North Dakota.
The Highway Patrol Clemens Schaaf was traveling to a rural residence east of Bowman on Thursday afternoon and failed to stop at the crossing.
A BNSF Railway train en route from Forsyth, Montana, to Hettinger struck the front driver side of the minivan, and Schaaf died at the scene.
No one on the train was hurt.
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