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Muncie woman killed when car strikes train on Ind. 67

The Star Press

One female driver died in a wreck involving her Hyundai Accent and a Norfolk Southern Train around 11:30 p.m. Friday night. According to police and witnesses at the scene, the woman was driving southbound in the northbound lane of Ind. 67 near Cowan Road when she struck a train. Her vehicle was crushed underneath the train and was flipped into the median on the opposite side of the initial point of impact. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators examined the site where the incident occurred while traffic was temporarily directed around the area. The cause of the wreck is still under investigation.

MUNCIE -- A Muncie woman was killed when her vehicle, traveling the wrong way on a four-lane highway, collided with a train just south of the city late Friday night.

Brenna Ann Parsons, 23, was pronounced dead at the scene by Delaware County Coroner Scott Hahn.

Officials on the scene said Parsons was headed south in the northbound lanes of Ind. 67 near Cowan Road when she struck a train. Her car was then destroyed when it went under the train and flipped into the median. The accident happened shortly after 11 p.m., and Parsons was the only person in the vehicle.

Parsons was a 2009 graduate of Wes-Del High School.

David Spence II, an investigator with the Delaware County Sheriff's Department who was on the scene, said Saturday that a call came in to dispatch just moments before the crash about "a silver car traveling the wrong direction in excess of 70 miles an hour."