Freight Train Kills Twice in Same Day
Two men at separate railroad crossings were killed by the same freight train on the same day, authorities said Friday.
The Southern Pacific train first collided with a pickup Thursday morning at a crossing in Pine Bluff, killing James Edward Dallari, 43. After a 90-minute delay, the train took off with a new engineer at the controls. Less than five hours later and 50 miles down the tracks, the train struck a car at another crossing, killing Roderick Miguel Daniels, 21.
“It was not a good day for that train,” said Mike Furtney, a Southern Pacific spokesman. “The weather was clear in both cases. You’d think somebody could see a train coming.”
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