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Last updated on Monday, November 19, 2018
(TAYLORSVILLE) - Authorities say two teenagers have died after the car they were riding in collided with a train near Taylorsville Friday night.
Photo courtesy of Bartholomew County Sheriff's Department
The Bartholomew County Sheriff's Department says the driver 18-year-old Matthew Newland and his passenger 17-year-old Carmyn Elkins were pronounced dead at hospitals following the collision shortly after 10 p.m. Friday. Both were from Columbus.
County Coroner Clayton Nolting says both died of massive blunt force trauma.
Photo courtesy of Bartholomew County Sheriff's Department
A witness says a Nissan Versa driven by Newland turned from southbound US 31 to travel east on a rural road and failed to yield to the southbound train. The car was knocked into a field southeast of the intersection by the collision and both Newland and Elkins were trapped in the wreckage.
The witness says railroad crossing equipment was working properly as the train approached, and the train sounded its horn several times.
Investigators will be reviewing camera footage from the train.
The conductor and engineer of the Louisville & Indiana Railroad train were uninjured.
The accident remains under investigation by the railroad, the sheriff's department and the Bartholomew County Coroner's office.
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