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Two Nebraksa Residents Killed In Car Train Wreck In Jewell County Saturday Morning

by Randy Picking ~ Salina Post

Two Nebraska residents are killed Saturday morning when the car they were in was struck by a train in northern Kansas.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, A BNSF train with 99 cars was northbound about a mile north of Webber in Jewell County, when it a 2002 Suzuki as it exited a Farm Entrance Drive and crossed the tracks.

The driver of the car 43 year old Tracy Core of Lincoln Nebraska , and 22 year old Bradley G Cusatis Jr. of Beatrice Nebraska were killed.

The crash occurred about 10:30am.

No one on the train was injured.

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