STUARTS DRAFT, Va. (AP) — Three people were killed and a fourth was seriously injured when a train struck a van, according to Virginia State Police. A Ford Transit van was traveling on a private drive in Stuarts Draft in Augusta County around 8 p.
m. Monday when it crossed the tracks and was struck by a northbound train, causing the van to roll over, police said in a news release. Two men and a woman were ejected from the van and died at the scene, police said.
Another woman, a front-seat passenger, was taken to a hospital with injuries that were considered serious but not life-threatening, police said. Sgt. C.
J. Aikens of the Virginia State Police said the van was leaving a solar project site when a Norfolk Southern train headed north toward Waynesboro from Stuarts Draft struck the driver’s side, The News Virginian reported . The news site said the victims were from Florida and Georgia.
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