48 INVESTIGATES Troubled Tracks: Alabama railroad crossings lack safety gates despite fatal crashes

GURLEY, Ala. (WAFF) – 8-year-old McKinley Davis and her father, Keegan, were hit and killed by a train at the Salty Bottom Road crossing in Gurley. His other daughter, Molly, was hospitalized.

The crossing has no gate, like many crossings across Alabama.

Twenty years earlier, Jonya Hawkins’ father was hit by a train at the same crossing. The 81-year-old broke multiple bones, including a hangman’s break in his neck…

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