4 Dead When SUV Hits Freight Train in Suburban Chicago

4 Dead When SUV Hits Freight Train in Suburban Chicago
A pair of CSX Transportation-owned C40-8 General Electric locomotives in a file photo. Luke Sharrett/Getty Images
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HARVEY, Ill.—Four people died early Wednesday in a south Chicago suburb when an SUV hit the last rail car of a moving freight train at a crossing and caught fire, officials said.

The Dodge Durango struck the CSX train about 2 a.m. at a crossing on the east side of Harvey, a south suburban community, killing the vehicle’s four occupants, said Jason Baumann, a spokesman for the city of Harvey.