(The Associated Press distributed the following article on february 14.)
PARMA, Idaho — A train struck a hay trailer Saturday, killing a teenage girl and injuring her younger sister.
Audrey Black, 13, and 8-year-old Riley Anderson, were on the trailer being pulled by a tractor across tracks just west of Parma, according to the Canyon County Sheriff’s Department.
The girls were visiting their grandparents and the family was moving horses when the accident occurred about 2 p.m.
The 79-year-old man driving the tractor did not heed railroad signals and apparently didn’t hear the train, the sheriff’s department said. Clarence Derrick worked on the grandparents’ farm. He was not injured.
Black was pronounced dead at the scene. Anderson was flown to St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, where she was listed in critical condition Saturday night.
Parma is 40 miles east of Boise.