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Semi-Truck Collides With METRO Green Line Train In St. Paul

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A semi-truck collided with a light rail train early Monday evening in St. Paul.

Green Line Light Rail Semi Crash
(credit: MnDOT)

Metro Transit officials say the semi took an illegal turn from Raymond Avenue onto University Avenue, and then struck an eastbound METRO Green Line train just before 6 p.m. No one was hurt.

Trains were unable to run between the Raymond and Westgate stations for about 30 minutes in the crash's aftermath. That stretch was reopened at about 6:30 p.m.

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