Crash Involving Freight Train and Car Kills 3 People in Oregon

Crash Involving Freight Train and Car Kills 3 People in Oregon
A Union Pacific freight train in a file photo. Brandon Bell/Getty Images
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GERVAIS, Ore.—Three people were killed Wednesday and another person was injured when a Union Pacific freight train crashed into a car north of Salem, Oregon, according to law enforcement officials.

A 2002 Honda traveling west on a farm access road around 7 p.m. was hit by the train south of Gervais when the vehicle tried to cross the railroad tracks, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.