Locals Killed In Trax Accident

Published on March 12, 2010 at 09:41AM

(Salt Lake City) Two Central Utah residents were killed in an accident with a Trax Train last night in Salt Lake City. According to police reports, a car driven by 21 year old Alex Amundson of Fairview was stopped at a Trax crossing about 7:00 PM waiting for the train to pass when Amundson apparently drove the car around the crossing gate possibly in an effort to beat the train. The train struck the car and carried it for 300 hundred feet down the tracks. Amundson was killed immediately and one of the passengers, 18 year old Donald Callison of Monroe died later at the scene. Two other passengers were taken to hospitals in critical condition. According to the report, all of the occupant of the car were in Salt Lake for a KFC training meeting and were traveling from store to store. A Utah Transit Authority spokesman says the train was likely going about fifty miles an hour when it struck the car. No passengers on the train were injured in the incident.