Investigators were looking into the possibility signals had been deactivated at a train crossing Friday evening when a popular dance teacher's sports utility vehicle was killed in University Park in collision with a train.
Canadian National Railway crews had been working on the signals earlier Friday and some reports said the accident was caused by human error.
The accident occurred on tracks that crossed Stuenkel Road near Governors Highway when an Amtrak train hit 26-year-old Katie Lunn's sports utility vehicle. The train was traveling about 80 mph.
Witness accounts said there was no warnings signals sounded and no gates went down before Lunn's vehicle was struck by the train about 9:40 p.m. as Lunn and occupants of many of the vehicles on the road at the time were heading home after a Friday evening dance competition nearby.
The driver of the vehicle in front of Lunn's said she only realized a train was coming as the train driver sounded the whistle. She said before she knew it, the train was there and no one had enough time to react.
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