JENSEN BEACH, Fla. — A freight train made an emergency stop as an intoxicated man from Arizona drove his truck on a track, the Martin County Sheriff's Office said Monday.
The incident was reported at 12:59 a.m. Sunday.
Kenneth Allen Deering, 39, of Kingman, Arizona, told deputies he had just left a Jensen Beach bar and was baffled at how his truck was on the train tracks near the downtown Jensen Beach roundabout, according to a post on Facebook.
Deering was driving southbound on the northbound set of Florida East Coast Railway tracks, just ahead of an oncoming southbound train. The train's conductor, Calvin Collins, made an emergency stop, but the train went slightly past the truck in the opposite track's direction, according to the arrest report.
The conductor said the man went out of the vehicle and was walking around.
Deering told deputies he was not driving the truck and blamed the incident on a woman he said he met at the bar, but he didn't know her name or where she went. But witnesses said Deering was the only person in the vehicle.
Deering has three prior DUI convictions, two in Missouri and one in South Carolina. Because this is his fourth DUI arrest in his lifetime, he is facing a felony charge. He was taken to the Martin County jail.