2 killed after car drives into LA. train's path

2 killed after car drives into La. train's path
AP foreign, Tuesday August 19 2008 Content


KINDER, La. (AP) - Police say a car failed to yield at a Louisiana railroad crossing and drove into the path of a freight train, killing the two people inside the car.

State Police Senior Trooper Stephen LaFargue says 52-year-old Nelson Guidry and his passenger, 46-year-old Jacqueline Guidry, were pronounced dead at the scene of Monday's accident. Both were from Kinder, about 180 miles west of New Orleans.

LaFargue says Guidry's Chevrolet Cavalier failed to yield as a southbound Union Pacific train approached. The crossing was marked with signs but no crossing arms. He says the engineer sounded the horn as it approached.

Neither victim was wearing a seat belt. Routine toxicology tests are pending. No one on the train was injured.
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UK: Train crash killer wins compensation case

June 25, 2008

Train crash killer wins compensation case

Hannah Strange
A Paddington train crash survivor who claimed he was turned into a killer by post-traumatic stress disorder stands to receive thousands in compensation after a landmark Appeal Court ruling today.

Judges ruled that Kerrie Gray, 48, is due damages from rail firms after he was incarcarated in a mental hospital for stabbing a pedestrian to death with a kitchen knife in August 2001, two years after the horrific crash in which 31 people died.

The High Court, which had previously rejected the claim, must now decide the level of his payout.

The court heard that Gray was "perfectly normal" until the Ladbroke Grove crash in October 1999 but afterwards underwent a significant personality change, suffering depression, anxiety and uncontrollable anger.
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