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Maryland Woman Dies Hero Saving Boy From Train Months After Losing Mom, Stepfather
Just months after losing her mother and step-father, a 20-year-old Maryland woman has died in what her family says what was an act of heroism.
Summer Giffin, of Sandy Hook, was trying to save a boy from being hit by a train Tuesday night, May 6 but was hit herself, her family tells Daily Voice.
The tragic accident, which left one other person dead, happened around 8:18 p.m., when emergency crews were called to the CSX rail bridge near the Maryland-West Virginia border, just outside Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, as previously reported by Daily Voice.
As of press time, more th…
Death Of SUV Driver Struck By Overnight Freight Train Was Suicide, Bergenfield Police Say
A distraught Morris County woman intentionally drove into the path of a freight train that slammed into her SUV at a railroad crossing in Bergenfield, killing her, in the middle of the night, authorities said.
The lifeless victim 42, from Jefferson, NJ, was alone in the 2019 Hyundai Santa Fe when it was struck by a CSX train at the West Central crossing and knocked onto its roof around 1 a.m. Sunday, July 2, Police Capt. William Duran said.
Responding police officers found various vehicle parts strewn around, the captain said on Monday.
An ALS unit pronounced the woman dead at the scene af…
