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Later today, a Dallas woman was killed as she walkedTRAIN MOVES
CAR TRAIN
A seven year old girl was injured this afternoon when
the car in which she was riding collided with a freight
train at a crossing on Gross Road in Mesquite. Regina
Rene Shirley, of 9.02 Irene in Mesquite, is L
hospitalized in fair condition with ft facial lacerate
tions and a broken collarbone. The girl's mother, 26
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year old g Shirley, and eight year old brother,
Perry, escaped injury. Mrs. Shirley told officers
she had just turned onto Gross Road and rolled
across the tracks when 10 she saw the train. She said
she hit the gas, but the car just sat there.......
sputtering. Mrs. Shirley yelled for her children to
jump out. She helped free the boy, who was in the back
seat, and was rushing to aid her daughter when the
engine smashed into the station..wagon,J with Regina
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still inside. The car was knocked about 40 feet a
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Car train], script, January 14, 1967; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc987095/m1/1/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.