Race with train ends in death
NZPA-Reuter Plant City, Florida A speeding passenger train has slammed into a camper van apparently trying to beat it to a crossing killing all 10 persons in the vehicle. The truck exploded in flames and was pushed almost a kilometre down the track by the express train. The dead included three adults and seven children ranging in age from one to 10. The accident occurred I about two hours after ani other passenger train struck and killed a 7-year-old girl in Auburndale, a central Florida community about 32km east of Plant City. The police said the dead at Plant City were believed to be migrant workers of Latin origin, but none of the victims was identified. The bodies of two adults and two children were found in the charred wreckage, I burned beyond recognition.
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Press, 4 October 1977, Page 8
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