WABBASEKA ,AR : Train-vehicle collision fatal to two women on July, Thursday 27th 2017

Two women are dead and another is in critical condition after their car was hit by a train Thursday afternoon, the second fatal crash this year at the train crossing in Wabbaseka, a small Jefferson County town of 250.

Jefferson County sheriff's authorities said Genesis Dendy, 25, drove her Chevrolet Cruze northwest over the train tracks about 1:23 p.m., headed toward U.S. 79, on the women's way to work at Lennox Industries in Stuttgart. That's when the passenger side of the car was struck by a Union Pacific Railroad train, pushing it 1,537 feet down the tracks that run through town.

Shamri Cole-Cox, 27, and Talisa Cannon, 28, both of Altheimer were killed. Dendy, also of Altheimer, was airlifted in critical condition to Baptist Health Medical Center in Little Rock. She remained in critical condition Thursday evening.

The accident was at least the second fatal one at the intersection this year.


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Train-vehicle collision fatal to two women