U.S. 412 closed near Carter after train hits truck in Uinta County

U.S. 412 near Carter is closed Wednesday morning after a freight train hit a truck, officials said. Photo Courtesy: Uinta County Law Enforcement

CARTER, Utah, June 6, 2018 (Gephardt Daily) — U.S. 412 near Carter is closed Wednesday morning after a freight train hit a truck, officials said.

Officials are on the scene of the crash, in which a freight train struck a Union Pacific service vehicle that was on the same track, Uinta County Law Enforcement Services said in a news release on Facebook just before 11 a.m.

No one was injured in the crash, the news release said.

Officials added U.S. 412 will be closed for several hours while railroad officials investigate the crash.

The sequence of events that led up to the incident was not immediately made clear.

Gephardt Daily will have more on this developing story as information is made available.

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