Ypsilanti police investigate after a train struck a car on the railroad tracks at East Cross and North River streets in Depot Town in Ypsilanti Friday night.
AnnArbor.com photo | Courtney Sacco
A freight train hit a car on the railroad tracks at the intersection of East Cross and North River streets in Depot Town in Ypsilanti Friday night.
No one was in the car when the train stuck it about 8:50 Friday night, said Capt. Dan Cain of the Ypsilanti Fire Department. No one was believed to have been injured he said.
Ypsilanti police were still at the crash scene just before 10 p.m. The front of the car, which Cain said was a Hyundai, had been crushed by the impact. The intersection was blocked by the accident.
No information about why the car was on the tracks or what happened to its driver was immediately available.
The train that struck a car in Ypsilanti's Depot Town Friday night sits on the tracks after the accident.
Courtney Sacco | AnnArbor.com