INCREDIBLY ANOTHER PERSON KILLED BY TRAIN IN EAST TN
A woman was killed Tuesday morning when a train struck a vehicle near downtown Morristown.
The accident was reported just after 11 a.m. on Liberty Hill Street just off Main Street.
Morristown police say at Mary Devotie, 79, was killed in the accident.
Officers say the crossing arms were down, but Devotie drove through anyway. They say she tried to put the car in reverse when she realized what she had done, but put it in park by accident.
The train pushed Devotie’s vehicle more than 80 feet. Police say her airbags did not deploy.
This is the fourth train incident in the last three weeks in East Tennessee alone resulting in either injury or deaths.