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A landscaping worker killed in a crash last month had virtually no warning that a freight train was coming before it hit their pickup truck as it was crossing the tracks in Elgin, according to a ...

A person was killed and two others injured after a Union Pacific train and a vehicle collided in Elgin Thursday morning. Around 6:30 a.m. Elgin police responded to a crash involving a Union Pacific ...

ELGIN, Ill. (WLS) -- One person was killed and two others injured early Thursday morning, after the pickup truck they were inside was hit by a train in west suburban Elgin, police said. Elgin police ...

ELGIN, Ill. (WLS) -- A new report says the driver of a landscaping truck killed in an Elgin crash had little warning of the incoming Union Pacific locomotive. The crash happened on October 23 at about ...