https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7k8wmx/woman-hit-by-freight-train-while-detained-in-cop-car-parked-on-the-tracks

A Colorado woman was seriously injured when the squad car police officers put her into after being arrested for road rage was hit by a freight train. An officer has since been placed on administrative leave while the incident is being investigated by state officials, according to local media reports.

The bizarre incident took place on September 16 in Platteville, Colorado, a town of about 3,000 people some 40 miles north of Denver. According to 9News, the local NBC affiliate, the woman, 20-year-old Yareni Rios-Gonzalez, was pulled over as a suspect in a road rage incident where someone called 911 after a driver had tailgated them and then pulled out a gun. Local police and county sheriff officers pulled the woman over just across railroad tracks, according to state investigators. The officers put the woman in the back of a squad car which was, inexplicably, parked on railroad tracks. While the police searched Rios-Gonzalez’s car, a freight train hit the squad car Rios-Gonzalez was in. According to 9News, Rios-Gonzalez suffered serious injuries but is “expected to survive,” according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, which is investigating the incident.