ONE PERSON IS DEAD IN A TRAIN COLLISION SOUTH OF ROSWELL. STATE POLICE SAY TWO FREIGHT TRAINS CRASHED HEAD-ON SHORTLY AFTER 6:00 TUESDAY MORNING. ONE TRAIN WAS STATIONARY AND UNMANNED. IT WAS HIT BY A TRAIN CARRYING A TWO MAN CREW.
SERGEANT ELIZABETH ARMIJO TELLS US THE VICTIM IS IDENTIFIED AS 48 YEAR OLD JESSE COBURN THE THIRD OF TEXICO, NEW MEXICO. ANOTHER CREW MEMBER WAS INJURED AND SENT TO A HOSPITAL IN LUBBOCK FOR TREATMENT. HE WAS LAST LISTED IN STABLE CONDITION.
ARMIJO TELLS US SIX LOCOMOTIVES AND THREE FREIGHT CARS DERAILED IN THE ACCIDENT. THE N-T-S-B WILL BE INVESTIGATING THE CRASH.
