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Rail Signals Being Installed After Woman's Plea

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Rail Signals Being Installed After Woman's Plea

June 18, 2010 Updated Jun 30, 2009 at 1:05 PM EST LINTON, Ind. (AP) - Crews are installing crossing arms and flashing red lights at three rural railroad crossings in southern Indiana following a woman's plea for safety work at the site where her great-grandson was killed last year. Six-year-old Christopher Perez died when the car he was riding in was hit by a train at a Greene County crossing. Teddi Harmon of Linton says she heard at his funeral about many narrow escapes at that and other nearby crossings, which were only one-lane wide, with steep grades and only stop signs. Harmon then wrote to the Indiana Department of Transportation, asking for crossing signals. Highway department spokeswoman Valerie Cockrum says the crossings' accident history was a factor in deciding to go ahead with the $610,000 project. (Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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