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Derailed Train That Killed Girls Traveling Just 25mph

Details begin to emerge in tragic accident, but many questions remain

(Newser) - Investigators continue to sift through the evidence in a bid to determine whether the two 19-year-olds killed in a Tuesday coal-train derailment may have contributed to the crash, or were just tragically in the wrong place at the wrong time. That and other questions remain unanswered, but some details are...

2 Teens on Railroad Bridge Killed in Derailment

19-year-old friends had been tweeting pics just before

(Newser) - Two 19-year-old college students who were happily tweeting photos of themselves atop a railroad bridge in Maryland were killed when a coal train derailed at the site last night, reports NBC Washington . The best guess is that the teens were sitting on the edge of the bridge in Ellicott City...

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