Train hits truck, injures driver
By DAN KULIN and KIMBERLY YAKOWSKI / Staff Writers
photos: RIC DUGAN / staff photographer

Above: A Smithsburg man was hospitalized with serious injuries after his pickup truck was hit by a Norfolk Southern train Thursday afternoon. Nelson Bair, 51, was driving a pickup truck equipped with a snow plow over the railroad tracks on Maugansville Road when a train hit the plow and a front panel of the pickup truck, Washington County Sheriff's deputies said.
Above: A rescue worker looks over the damage to the truck.
MAUGANSVILLE - A Smithsburg man was hospitalized with serious injuries after his pickup truck was hit by a Norfolk Southern train Thursday afternoon.
Nelson Bair, 51, of Smithsburg was driving a pickup truck equipped with a snow plow over the railroad tracks behind Martin's Elevator on Maugansville Road at around 1:30 p.m. when a train hit the plow and a front panel of the pickup truck, Washington County Sheriff's deputies said.