A man was killed in a crash in SW Kansas involving a train and a tractor.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 59-year-old Bernard Stegman from Spearville was driving a John Deere tractor headed north on a rural road in Ford County. He failed to stop at a railroad crossing and was struck by a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train.
Stegman was killed in the crash. No one in the train was hurt.
The crash happened at around 5:45 Tuesday evening, at the Garnett Road Railroad crossing about three miles Southwest of Spearville in Ford County.