By Associated Press - Saturday, January 7, 2017

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office says a man and a woman are dead after a BNSF train struck their pickup truck.

The Spokesman-Review reports (https://goo.gl/GJDqr1 ) that the truck’s occupants were pronounced dead at the scene following the 9:40 a.m. crash Saturday.

The collision occurred at a rail crossing on Brooks Road near Medical Lake. It remains under investigation.



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