Car-Train Collision Kills Two and Injures One

Jenny Albano

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Two residents of Mount Pleasant, MI were killed Saturday afternoon, December 8 when their car struck a train carrying 67 passengers. The accident occurred at 2:12 P.M. and Jennifer Mae VanBuskirk, 31, and Allen John Pego, 31, were pronounced dead at the scene. Passenger Msquabnah Pego, 28, was airlifted to St. Mary's Hospital in Saginaw with unknown injuries.

Jennifer Mae VanBuskirk, 31, Mount Pleasant, was driving westbound on East Baseline in a 2002 Mitsubishi Galant when the car struck the train, according to the Isabella County Sheriff's Department.

None of the passengers on the train were injured as a result of the crash. At the time of the crash it was unknown whether drugs or alcohol were involved. The passengers in the front of the car, who both died, were wearing their seatbelts and their airbags did deploy. Officials don't think that Msquabnah Pego was wearing his seatbelt.

For more information on this subject, please refer to our section on Automobile Accidents.