
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, August 26, 1994                   TAG: 9408260055
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV12   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: PULASKI                                 LENGTH: Short

TRAIN HITS AUTO; DRIVER NOT INJURED|

A 59-year-old Pulaski woman escaped injury Thursday morning when her car collided with a train at a railroad crossing in downtown Pulaski.

The car driven by Patricia Wallace Kiser got trapped between the mechanical crossing guard and the track when the guard lowered at the approach of the westbound train. Kiser tried to turn around but was unable to do so, said Barry Buckner, a division commander with the Pulaski Police Department.

The engineer, Michael Eugene Williams, 39, of Roanoke, was unable to stop the train before it caught the front of the car and dragged it down the track. Buckner said Williams had sounded his whistle as he approached the crossing.

Kiser had been making a turn from Commerce Street onto Jefferson Avenue when the accident happened shortly before 10 a.m. Buckner estimated the cost of damage to the car at $2,000.

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