City of New Orleans has two accidents on one day

[grampaw pettibone]

NEW ORLEANS -- The City of New Orleans Amtrak train was involved in two separate accidents Wednesday. In the second accident, two people were killed.

 

The southbound train hit a car in south McComb, Miss., and sent the car's 19-year-old driver to a hospital.

 

The train then continued south, and after it crossed into Louisiana, it hit another car near the town of Independence. Dennis Pevey, the public information officer for Tangipahoa Parish, told WDSU NewsChannel 6 the car was traveling east on Anderson Road when the collision happened. Pevey said that witnesses heard the train blowing its whistle, but the car did not stop. Pevey said the train pushed the car about 285 feet before it came to a stop. Two people inside the car were declared dead at the scene.

 

Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliarri said none of the 130 passengers and crew on the train was injured.

[SchemerBob]

If you don't pay attention while crossing tracks, you get hit. It's too bad people have to get killed, though. I wonder how long it will take until people learn to LOOK BOTH WAYS before crossing railroad tracks!

[locomutt]

Didn't the same train have another accident the other day, hitting a garbage truck?!

[CANADIANPACIFIC2816]

If I were an engineer, a garbage truck would be one of the last things I'd want to hit, because invariably when you get behind one in automotive traffic, and your windows are rolled down, it can really stink big time!

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