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Spartanburg, SC -- On Saturday, March 19, "Sparkles," a miniature train at Cleveland Park in Spartanburg derailed, killing a 6-year-old, Benjamin Easler, and injuring dozens, including parents and children on the train.
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WSPA-TV, Channel 7 in Spartanburg, SC, 3/24/11:
Spartanburg, SC -- On Saturday, March 19, "Sparkles," a miniature train at Cleveland Park in Spartanburg derailed, killing a 6-year-old, Benjamin Easler, and injuring dozens, including parents and children on the train.
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Spartanburg, SC -- On Saturday, March 19, "Sparkles," a miniature train at Cleveland Park in Spartanburg derailed, killing a 6-year-old, Benjamin Easler, and injuring dozens, including parents and children on the train.
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Danbury, CT News-Times, via AP, 3/23/11:
SC train wreck conductor: I'm a victim, too
The man at the helm of the children's train ride that crashed and killed a 6-year-old boy said Wednesday that the wreck hurt him emotionally and physically.
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SC train wreck conductor: I'm a victim, too
The man at the helm of the children's train ride that crashed and killed a 6-year-old boy said Wednesday that the wreck hurt him emotionally and physically.
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WCBD-TV, Channel 2 in Charleston, SC, 3/21/11:
South Carolina officials say the state inspector who OK'd a children's train ride that crashed over the weekend, killing a boy and injuring dozens, falsified his report.
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SC says fatal train ride inspector faked report
South Carolina officials say the state inspector who OK'd a children's train ride that crashed over the weekend, killing a boy and injuring dozens, falsified his report.
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There better be a wrongfull death lawsuit in this.
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There better be a wrongfull death lawsuit in this.
Lawyers such as this one are all over the incident already, as one might imagine. However in hearing the minister father of the boy who was killed speak, all is forgiven and he's made amends with the operator of the train.
Go Upstate.com, 7/19/11:
The man who was driving a miniature train in Spartanburg's Cleveland Park when it derailed, killing a 6-year-old Gaffney boy and injuring 28 others, will not face criminal charges.
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No criminal charges will be filed in Cleveland Park train derailment
The man who was driving a miniature train in Spartanburg's Cleveland Park when it derailed, killing a 6-year-old Gaffney boy and injuring 28 others, will not face criminal charges.
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