FATAL DRIVE AROUND CROSSING GATES
Posted on 09 October 2009
On 30 September, Fannie Black, 68, overtook another car waiting at a level crossing in Brookhaven, Mississippi, zigzagged through the lowered crossing gates and was hit by an Amtrak passenger train. Witnesses said the locomotive’s horn was “blaring”. Black died less than three hours later in hospital. None of the 51 passengers were injured on the train, en route from Chicago to New Orleans. The Daewoo Nubira station wagon was pushed to beyond the south end of the Amtrak station, a distance almost an entire city block.
“Motorists navigating through lowered gates at rail crossings in downtown Brookhaven is a common sight,” the town’s Daily Leader observed, “especially when Amtrak trains stop just beyond them or when Canadian National crews trigger them while working on the track.”
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