Sarah Smith, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Responders works the scene where a train hit a bus in Biloxi, Miss., Tuesday, March 7, 2017. A freight train smashed into a charter bus in Biloxi, Mississippi, on Tuesday, pushing the bus 300 feet down the tracks authorities said. Authorities worked for more than an hour to remove passengers, Biloxi Fire Chief Joe Boney said, taking the injured people to area hospitals and cutting through the bus’s mangled body to extract the final two people. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Fatal wreck shines light on Miss. rail crossing

by Janet McConnaughey Associated Press, and Sarah Smith Associated PressMarch 9, 2017

JACKSON, Miss. — The site of a train-tour bus crash that killed four people in Mississippi has a troubling history of accidents, including two this year, local and federal officials said Wednesday.National Transportation Safety Board member Robert…

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Fatal wreck shines light on Miss. rail crossing

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