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MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — Amtrak has released a statement after a mother and her 8-year-old daughter were killed in a crash with a train.
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On Saturday, Feb. 21, the Mobile Police Department, as well as the Mobile Fire-Rescue Department, responded to a traffic crash near Cary Hamilton Road at around 6:51 a.m.
First responders found that the car that 31-year-old Brittany Williams and her daughter were in was hit by an Amtrak train. They were pronounced dead on the scene…