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Sumter County Teen Killed in Collision with Train
http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=76461&catid=2&GID=MRiT7IYUSBAHUlwjS/xNxHH0A8qGLZmw2UE
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Sumter (WLTX) -- A 16 year-old Sumter County teen is dead after the
vehicle he was driving
collided with a train. Nearby residents say the railroad crossing
where the accident happened has
been a concern for a number of years. They say it's nearly impossible
to see a train coming until
you're on the track. But by then, it could be too late.
"We heard the lights go on and then we heard the train horn and next
thing I know, I heard like
something hit,"says Barbara Gonzales.
She was doing yard work around lunchtime Thursday when she heard the
crash. "It sounded like I
heard a bam, and then I heard the brakes,"says Gonzales.
Gonzales lives just yards from the Lynam Road railroad crossing where
16 year-old John M. Brabham
III died.
"As I turned around to look, the train you could tell was trying to
stop and I knew then it had
hit something,"says Gonzales.
Gonzales says she and her husband dropped what they were doing and ran
to the scene. After
crawling under the stopped train, they stumbled on what was left of
Brabham's sport utility
vehicle.
"There was a lot of stuff scattered on the ground and it was
demolished,"says Gonzales.
The teen's father is well known Sumter businessman John Brabham Jr., a
longtime real estate
broker. His son, John the third, just recently celebrated his 16th
birthday.
"We could tell it was a young boy, we tried to talk to him to get some
kind of response," says
Gonzales. But there was nothing. At that point, Gonzales says her
husband checked for a pulse and
started praying for the teen.
"He noticed the pulse got weaker and then it stopped all
together,"says Gonzales.
On Thursday afternoon investigators with CSX Railroad were on the
scene.
Meanwhile, Gonzales says Thursday's accident is not the first time
tragedy has struck these
rails. "We had a young girl that got killed there quite a few years
ago,"says Gonzales.
While she prays another tragedy is averted, Gonzales also hopes
officials will do something to
make the crossing safer. "If the crossing guards were there, they
would have a better chance of
seeing that and knowing that the train is coming,"says Gonzales.
The Lynam Road railroad crossing has trees and bushes on each side
making it difficult to see if
a train is approaching. Neighbors we spoke with says they may petition
for crossing gates at that
intersection.
Late Thursday, CSX spokesperson Bob Sullivan told us that the train
involved in Thursday's fatal
accident is a local from the Cayce area.
Sullivan says the warning devices at the Lynam Road crossing were
working properly at the time of
the accident. Meanwhile CSX says it's working with local authorities
on the investigation. |
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