{"id":258461,"date":"2025-09-27T10:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T10:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/258461\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T10:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T10:07:15","slug":"freight-train-strikes-suv-hung-up-on-tracks-east-of-la-plata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/258461\/","title":{"rendered":"Freight train strikes SUV hung up on tracks east of La Plata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEAR LA PLATA, Mo. \u2014 A northeast Missouri woman was badly injured late Friday night when her SUV was struck by a BNSF freight train.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened just before 11 p.m. near Santa Fe Lake, about a half mile east of La Plata.<\/p>\n<p>A Missouri state trooper told KTVO that, prior to the train coming along, a 43-year-old woman from La Plata was driving an SUV westbound on Cambridge Lane when she traveled off a curve and ended up on the railroad tracks.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was hung up on the tracks, and that&#8217;s when a train came along and hit the SUV.<\/p>\n<p>It ended up on its top on a second set of tracks.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, who was the only person in the SUV, suffered serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>She was rushed by ambulance to a nearby helipad and then flown to University Hospital in Columbia, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>The trooper was not sure if the woman was wearing a seat belt when the crash happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEAR LA PLATA, Mo. \u2014 A northeast Missouri woman was badly injured late Friday night when her SUV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":258462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[63284,1582,276,4903,44558,13117,2961,15958,224,5337,9540,135809,47601],"class_list":{"0":"post-258461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ambulance","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-crash","12":"tag-freight-train","13":"tag-injuries","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-la-plata","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-missouri","19":"tag-railroad-tracks","20":"tag-suv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115275710174587263","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}