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A dump truck driver last year may have never seen an oncoming Amtrak train before it was too late, federal investigators concluded in a report, finding that a steep, poorly designed railroad crossing in rural Missouri contributed to last year s fatal Amtrak derailment that killed four people and injured 146 others.
Federal investigators recently determined that a poorly designed railroad crossing in Missouri contributed to the fatal collision that killed four people and injured 146 others.