According to police, the gates at the double railroad tracks on Tylersville Road near the Cincinnati-Dayton Road intersection were down Friday morning at 7:05 a.m. and the gates’ warning lights were flashing signaling a passing train.
Cadwallader, whose truck was traveling west on Tylersville Road, slid through the gates and struck the second railroad car of a Norfolk & Southern train, spun around and struck the train a second time.
His truck was dragged a short distance, but he exited it after it stopped moving and was uninjured.
The accident halted morning traffic at the Tylersville railroad crossing for more than an hour.
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