WLBT 3 - Jackson, MS: Woman seriously injured when vehicle crosses into train's path

Woman seriously injured when vehicle crosses into train's path

BROOKHAVEN, MS (WLBT) - A Lincoln county woman is fighting for her life after driving her vehicle into the path of an oncoming train in downtown Brookhaven.

Police Chief Pap Henderson said 68 year old Fannie Mae Black was seriously injured in that crash.

Shortly after one o'clock an Amtrak train was traveling south through downtown when it struck Black's vehicle at the Whitworth and Monticello Street intersection.

She was alone in the blue Daewoo station wagon.

Police said it was hit on the passenger's side and dragged about half a city block.

"In fact Officer Penny Brooks was monitoring traffic downtown and witnessed the accident. The Amtrak train was coming through. The gates were down and she went around a vehicle and then went through the gates, and the train hit her," said Chief Henderson.

"It was a lady sitting in her car. She got out of the car and she was trying to tell the lady 'Con't cross the track', but the lady was still coming across. So by that time the train hit her," said Sharlton Gordon who witnessed the crash.

Chief Henderson said Black suffered head trauma and was air lifted to Jackson.

No other injuries were reported.