Niagara Gazette, Niagara Falls, NY 6/29/24
Fatal North Tonawanda train accident probe ‘ongoing’
NORTH TONAWANDA — The investigation into the cause of a triple fatal truck and train crash in North Tonawanda was described Friday as “an ongoing process.”
But North Tonawanda police declined to comment on the investigation, reportedly on the advice of city lawyers, because of pending litigation surrounding the accident.
The Gazette has learned that federal safety investigators with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) are also actively looking into the crash that saw an Amtrak passenger train slam into a Dodge pickup truck, claiming the lives of David McMinn, 69, and Olive Geldart, 66, of North Tonawanda, and Ra’Mari Geldart, 6, of Buffalo, on the evening of May 17.
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