A West Bend man died yesterday after a tractor he was driving was hit by a freight train,
The Iowa State Patrol says sixty-nine year old Dean Banwart drove a tractor past a grade crossing without attempting to stop.
The train’s engineer saw the tractor but was unable to avoid the collision.
Banwart was pronounced dead at the Kossuth County Hospital.
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