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A Norfolk Southern investigator takes measurements at the scene of last week�s Dry Ridge car-train collision that took the life of Amy Nicole Crabtree. The wrecked red car in which she was riding can be seen behind the train

McCreary woman dies when train strikes car
Record Staff Report

   DRY RIDGE � Just when life was looking good for a young mother from the Strunk community, it was tragically cut short last week.
   Amy Nicole Crabtree, 21, and her fianc�, Timothy �Andy� Whalen, 21, were killed when a train struck their car Wednesday afternoon in Grant County.
   The couple was pronounced dead at the scene.
   Their daughters � three-year-old Sierra Nicole and four-month-old Emilee Paige � were airlifted to Children�s Hospital in Cincinnati with relatively minor injuries.
   Andy Whalen, a carpenter, was buried Saturday in Dry Ridge�s Hill Crest Cemetery.
   Funeral arrangements for Amy Crabtree were incomplete at press time, although services are expected to be held in McCreary County. The daughter of Freddie and Angela Wilson, she was a 2000 graduate at McCreary Central High School and had attended Somerset Community College before devoting herself to homemaking full time.
   Family members have established a special fund at the Bank of McCreary County for Sierra and Emilee.


For complete details, see the Tuesday, September 7, 2004, Edition of The McCreary County Record.

Reader Comments

Jonathan Hearld (9/20/2004)
I always hate crossing railroad tracks.I came close not too long ago getting hit while crossing a railroad crossing.The place I was at didn't have any gates or anything.I always look both ways befor I attempt to cross,but I didn't see anything,the train wasn't sounding its horn until it was almost right up on me.Talk about being scared,that I was.

sad (9/17/2004)
My heart goes out to both family's for their lose, i didn't know either or the two. but this is such a sad thing that has happen, i am so sorry, but god will see you through this.

Crystal Vanover (9/14/2004)
It breaks my heart to hear of another train wreak. You know i don't know all the facts but i do know that if that crossing would of had the the bars that goes down there wouldn't have been this wreak or the wreak that killed my wonderfull family members, my mother, sister and my niece. To that i say that i am deeply sorry to hear of such bad news. And i will be praying for the children and the family.

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