Two die in train, van crash

Two Tennessee residents died and three were critically injured December 4 in a collision between a vehicle and a train on the BNSF Railroad, according to sheriff Kenny Dickerson.

Charity Mull and Brandon Deshawn Mosley, both 27, were pronounced dead at the scene, according to Marshall County Coroner James Richard Anderson.

Five people were in the vehicle traveling north on Red Banks Road when the van and an eastbound train collided.

Three survivors were transported and remained in the Regional One Health Medical Center on Monday of this week, according to Maj. Kelly McMillen with the sheriff’s department.

Antonio L. Johnson, 33, and Kriston P. Harris, 22, both of the Memphis address area, were airlifted to Regional One Health, he said. Katelyn Breanna Cook, 19, of the Hernando area, was transported by ambulance to Methodist Hospital in Olive Branch and then airlifted to Regional One Health, McMillen said.

All three are listed in stable, but critical, condition, he said.

Dickerson said he and officials with BNSF are working to look at video taken from the train that may provide some answers as to how the vehicle and train collided at the tracks on N. Red Banks Road.

Also, anyone with information that could be helpful in the investigation of the train/vehicle collision is urged to call the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department, 662-252-1311, Sheriff Dickerson said.

The victims were returning from a job in Oxford after they helped pack belongings in a veteran’s house to be moved to another home, the sheriff said.