Investigators were trying to determine why the driver kept going and crashed the 2002 Ford passenger van into the CSX train. The van was taking students to evening vacation Bible school at the Church at Mayfield in Middletown, some 30 miles north of Cincinnati. The Ohio State Highway Patrol said the gates were down and the warning lights activated when the van approached the crossing in the city of Middletown on Tuesday evening. The patrol said the front-seat passenger, 62-year-old Jan Martin, died at Atrium Medical Center in Middletown nearly two hours after the crash. A van carrying vacation Bible school students crashed through a crossing gate and into the side of a freight train at a southwest Ohio rail crossing, killing an adult passenger and injuring nine children and the driver, authorities said today.
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