(Wapello County, Iowa) – A woman was injured Monday afternoon when the car she was in was struck by a train east of Willard, in Wapello County. The Iowa State Patrol reports 57-year-old Juan Torres Juarez, of Hope Mills, North Carolina, was traveling south on 215th Avenue in a 2004 Buick Park Avenue, when he failed to yield to a train passing through the intersection, south of Highway 34.

The train struck the car as the vehicle entered the railroad crossing. The collision occurred at around 4:40-p.m.

Juarez and a rear-seat passenger in the car were not injured. A front seat passenger, 57-year-old Maria Laura Juarez, of Hope Mills (NC), was injured in the crash and transported by Life Flight helicopter to the University of Iowa Hospital.

The Wapello County Sheriff’s Office assisted at the scene.