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Woman killed when her car was struck by train at crossing in Sagle, Idaho

Date: 
Monday, December 30, 2013
Area: 
Spokane, WA

A woman was killed Tuesday afternoon when her car was struck by a BNSF train in Bonner County, Idaho, a BNSF spokesman said. The woman, who wasn’t identified, pulled in front of the engine at a railroad crossing at Heath Lake Road, near Sagle at 4:22 p.m. The intersection was marked with railroad crossing signs and stop signs, and the train sounded its whistle, BNSF said. The train was traveling at 59 miles per hour. None of the train’s crew was injured in the crash. The train, which was traveling from Portland to Chicago, continued on its route about 8 p.m.

Michael Linn Weber, 47, killed when his vehicle is hit by train at crossing on County Road 480 in Woods County, Oklahoma

Date: 
Monday, December 30, 2013
Area: 
Oklahoma City, OK

A Waynoka man died after his vehicle collided with a passing train Monday. Michael Linn Weber, 47, was killed about 5:05 p.m. Monday as he was driving south on County Road 480, a half mile east of County Road 470 in Woods County. He passed over railroad tracks at an unguarded crossing and was hit by an oncoming train that had 88 cars. Weber was ejected from his vehicle and died at the scene. He was not wearing a seat belt, according to a report from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

Train hits car stuck on tracks in Roy, Utah

Date: 
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Area: 
Salt Lake City, UT
Officials in Roy say people in a car that was struck by a train hopped out of the vehicle right before it was hit. No one was injured in the Monday night collision. Roy police say the car turned onto the Union Pacific tracks about 9:45 p.m. A southbound train approached and struck it from behind. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the car was lodged under the front of the train, which pushed it nearly a mile south before it came to a stop.

Train hits car and car hits school bus at crossing on Wetmore Road and MacArthur View in San Antonio, Texas

Date: 
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Area: 
San Antonio, TX
San Antonio police and fire departments are working a crash involving a vehicle, a school bus and a train at Wetmore Road and MacArthur View, near the Airport. Reports indicate that a school bus was stopped at a train crossing, waiting for the train to pass, when a teen driving a vehicle went around the school bus, crossed the tracks and was hit by a train. The school bus was slightly damaged and the teen driver received minor injuries.

MacKenzie Conway, 33, Kella Conway, 25, killed, Nicholas Conway, 27, seriously injured when their SUV is hit by train at crossing in Klamath Falls, Oregon

Date: 
Monday, December 9, 2013
Area: 
Medford-Klamath Falls, OR
Two people were killed and a third seriously injured when a freight train crushed an SUV at a Klamath Falls crossing on Tuesday, police said. MacKenzie Conway, 33, was driving a 1995 Jeep Cherokee north along a gravel road parallel to the railroad tracks near U.S. 97 around 10:50 a.m., Oregon State Police said. The driver's brother, Nicholas Conway, 27, and Nicholas' wife, Kella Conway, 25, were passengers in the SUV when MacKenzie Conway tried to cross the train tracks at a marked railroad crossing near milepost 281, police said.