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DNA tests to identify train crash victim

Sunday, August 2, 2009

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By Michael Milnes | Original story FORENSIC DNA tests will have to be conducted to positively identify a woman killed in a horrific double fatality between a train and car about 130km north of Adelaide. The woman and a man died when the Ford utility they were in failed to give way to a south-bound freight train [...]

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Death crossing due for upgrade

Sunday, August 2, 2009

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By Aaron MacDonald and David Nankervis | Original story A RAILWAY crossing where two people were killed in a train-car collision in the Mid-North yesterday had been earmarked for a safety upgrade. Wakefield Regional Council documents from June this year indicate that the Australian Rail Track Corporation – which manages the rail line – proposed to upgrade [...]

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Pair killed in ‘horrific’ rail crossing smash

Saturday, August 1, 2009

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Original story Two people have died after a freight train hit a car in South Australia – an accident police have described as particularly horrific. The collision happened just after 3:30pm on the Lochiel-Blyth Road, about five kilometres north of Nantawarra and 120 kilometres north of Adelaide.

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