Train Collides with SUV in Somerset County: 2 People Dead

UPDATE: Two people killed in Rockwood train-vehicle collision, officials say

Two people died Thursday in a crash involving a passenger vehicle and a train in Rockwood, investigators said.

Two elderly women killed when freight train hits SUV outside Pittsburgh

Two women were killed Thursday morning when their SUV was struck by a freight train at a railroad crossing outside Pittsburgh. The incident occurred just before 10:30 a.m. in Rockwood Borough, a small town in western Pennsylvania’s Somerset County. State police said the women drove through the crossing — even though the traffic control devices were functioning properly — and were hit on the front side door. The victims were identified later Thur…

Train collides with SUV in Somerset County: 2 people dead

One person was taken by helicopter to a hospital. A second person was also believed to be inside the SUV at the time of the crash. Their condition is unknown.

Two women killed in Somerset County train, SUV crash at crossing

ROCKWOOD, Pa. (WTAJ) — Two women are dead after a crash between a freight train and an SUV on Thursday at a railroad crossing. Emergency responders were sent to Rockwood Borough at 10:26 a.m. The crash happened at Chestnut Street just south of Main Street. According to Somerset State Police Corporal Nicholas Gray, both occupants of the SUV, an 85-year-old woman and a 67-year-old woman, died from the crash. Coroner Jeff Lees said one woman died a…