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Logan County man hospitalized after train hits road grader

rail road trainOAKLEY – A Kansas man was injured in an accident just before 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday in Logan County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a John Deere Road Grader driven by Jason Leo Wolf, 42, Monument, was southbound on Logan County Road 300 thirteen miles west of Oakley doing dirt work.

The grader crossed the railroad tracks and was struck by a westbound train.

Wolf was transported to Logan County Hospital.

The train engineer Richard Jay Brady, 48, Salina and the conductor Dennis R. Thompson, 47, Wellington, were not injured.

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