DEKALB COUNTY, IN - A driver who drove his car onto the train tracks in DeKalb County Tuesday morning told police that was what his GPS directed him to do.
According to the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department, the 18-year-old Fort Wayne man got out of his car after it got stuck on the tracks near the 4800 block of County Road 59 and called 911. Shortly after, the car was then hit by a Norfolk Southern train.
The man’s car was not driveable and was towed from the scene.
No one was injured in the crash.
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