Driver dies when tractor-trailer leaves I-90, lands on stopped train in SD


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A 70-year-old truck driver died earlier this week when the tractor-trailer he was driving plunged off Interstate 90 in South Dakota. The rig landed on top of a stopped freight train on the tracks below the interstate. Two cars of the train derailed. South Dakota Highway Patrol, the truck driver was westbound on I-90 when his 2019 Peterbilt and trailer left the highway and in to the median of the bridge. The crash remains under investigation.