BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI — At least four people were killed and 34 people were injured when a train crashed into a charter bus in Mississippi on Tuesday afternoon. <br /> <br />According to the New York Times, about 50 passengers were aboard the charter bus, many of them tourists from Texas. <br /> <br />The bus was heading to a casino in Biloxi when it got stuck on the railroad tracks at Main Street railroad crossing. The driver tried to get passengers off the bus moments before the a freight train crashed into the vehicle. <br /> <br />“We were trying to get off ourselves. The train just kept coming and kept coming,” the New York Times quoted a passenger named DeLaCruz as saying. <br /> <br />The train, operated by CSX, was en route to Mobile, Alabama. It had three locomotives and 52 cars. No one on the train was injured. <br /> <br />Biloxi’s Main Street railway crossing has been the site of several crashes in recent years. A Pepsi delivery truck was stuck by a train at the same crossing just two months ago.
