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NM State Police: Train Crew Apparently Jumped Before Crash

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A New Mexico State Police official says the two crew members on a freight train that struck a parked train on a siding apparently jumped before the impact.

A Southwestern Railroad official said the crew applied their train's brakes to try to stop it as the accident unfolded Tuesday morning on tracks about 10 miles southeast of Roswell.

State Police Capt. Lance Bateman said it appears that the two train workers then jumped to try to save themselves.

However, one of the two Southwestern Railroad crew members was killed and the second was injured.

State Police identified the worker who was killed as 48-year-old Jesse T. Coburn III of Texico, New Mexico.

Information from: KOAT-TV. 

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