Dive Brief:

• A man driving a sanitation truck for Total Waste Management in Heyburn, Idaho was operating the truck as it was struck by a train.

• The driver began crossing the railroad tracks noticed the oncoming train, then tried to back up over the tracks, but the train crashed into the front of the vehicle.

• The driver was not injured and the vehicle was only damaged slightly; the train itself had minor damage to its handrail and snowblade, and no injuries were reported by train employees.

Dive Insight:

Officials said that if the driver had not managed to reverse off of the tracks at all, he most likely would have been killed.