Investigators say two people were injured when a driver rear-ended another vehicle at a rail crossing, pushing them both into a passing train overnight Wednesday near Columbia Park in northeast Minneapolis.
Officers responded to the crash just after 2:30 a.m. and arrived to find two heavily damaged vehicles.
The Minneapolis Police Department says preliminary information indicates a woman driving a Cadillac Escalade had been stopped at a railroad crossing on Central Avenue Northeast as a train passed. That’s when a man driving a Toyota Rav4 struck the Cadillac from behind, pushing both cars into the train…