{"id":210411,"date":"2026-06-04T10:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/210411\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T10:18:10","slug":"one-dead-and-another-injured-after-train-strikes-semi-truck-in-iowa-associated-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/210411\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead and another injured after train strikes semi-truck in Iowa | Associated Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VICTOR, Iowa (AP) \u2014 A train struck a semi-truck in eastern Iowa on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring another, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred at the crossing of a state highway and the Iowa Interstate Railroad in a rural area about 70 miles (113 kilometers) east of Des Moines, according to Poweshiek County Sheriff Matt Maschmann.<\/p>\n<p>One person in the semi-truck died and another was transported with \u201cserious injuries,\u201d Maschmann said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen train cars and two power engines derailed after the crash and caused &#8220;significant damage&#8221; to the railroad, he said. Images of the scene showed a massive heap of railcars with billowing smoke.<\/p>\n<p>No hazardous material was spilled, according to Iowa State Patrol spokesman Sgt. Alex Dinkla.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VICTOR, Iowa (AP) \u2014 A train struck a semi-truck in eastern Iowa on Wednesday, killing one person and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[30848,25705,153,155,154,38,92256,92257,44],"class_list":["post-210411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-accidents","tag-automotive-accidents","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-general-news","tag-iowa-train-derailment","tag-rail-accidents","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}