Bowling Green Man Dead After Truck Collides With A Train In Pike County

A Bowling Green man is dead after failing to yield to a moving train in Pike County during the morning hours of Thursday, October 3, 2024.

According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol accident report it happened on Pike County Road 488 South of US 54.

A 2000 International 9900i driven by 81-year-old Lemuel A. Wells of Bowling Green failed to yield to an oncoming westbound General Electric GP402 locomotive, was hit in the side of the vehicle.

Wells was pronounced dead at Pike County Memorial Hospital.

His body was taken to the Bibb-Veach Funeral Home in Bowling Green.