St. Louis (MO) Post-Dispatch, 6/15/17:
Freight train-van collision in central Illinois kills 5 returning from ice cream social
NOKOMIS, Ill. • Five people in their 70s and 80s died after a freight train hit their minivan as they returned from an ice cream social in central Illinois, Illinois State Police said Thursday.
The 79-year-old man driving the silver minivan failed to yield to the oncoming Union Pacific train at a rail crossing near Nokomis on Wednesday evening, Christian County and state police said. . . .
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