SCENE. MATT. KELLY WAS QUITE A MORNING. THERE WAS NOBODY ACTUALLY HURT ON THAT AMTRAK TRAIN, JUST THAT DRIVER WHO WAS KILLED, THE FEDEX DRIVER WHO WAS ACTUALLY TRYING TO CROSS THIS CROSSING HERE. AND INVESTIGATORS ARE NOW TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY THAT DRIVER DID NOT SEE THE TRAIN. IT WAS A PRETTY BAD CRASH ON THIS FEBRUARY MORNING AT THE INTERSECTION OF A RURAL ROAD AND TRAIN TRACKS. IT’S A TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE EVENT. YOU COULD SEE WHAT’S LEFT OF A FEDEX DELIVERY TRUCK TRYING TO GO NORTH. NO BARRIERS JUST TO STOP SIGNS AT THIS CROSSING. AND JUST DOWN THE WAY, YOU COULD SEE THE IMPACT TO THE LOCOMOTIVES WINDOWS. IT’S ONE OF THOSE THINGS AS WE COME UP ON ON A SCENE LIKE THIS, WE KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, IT’S NOT GOING TO BE GOOD. AFTER ABOUT 3 HOURS, THE AMTRAK TRAIN MOVED JUST DOWN THE TRACKS TO ANOTHER CROSSING. NO PASSENGERS ON THE TRAIN WERE HURT. MOST LOADED ONTO A BUS TO CONTINUE THEIR TRIP. B, CULVER AND A FEW OTHERS STAYED BEHIND TO WAIT FOR RIDES. I DIDN’T FEEL A THING. ALL I KNOW IS THAT WE SUDDENLY JUST STOPPED. CULVER HAD JUST BOARDED THE AMTRAK IN LEE’S SUMMIT ON HER WAY TO SEE HER GRANDSON AT A SCHOOL AWARDS CEREMONY IN SAINT LOUIS. YOU CAN’T ALWAYS TAKE CARE OF SITUATIONS. SOMETIMES THEY’RE OUT OF OUR HANDS. AND THIS WAS A TIME WHEN A SITUATION WAS OUT OF GRANDMA HANDS. AS THE TRAIN MOVED ON, CULVER WAS ABLE TO GET A RIDE HOME ON THIS FEBRUARY MORNING IN RURAL CASS COUNTY. NOT HERE. WE’LL SOON FORGET. MY PRAYERS ARE WITH THE FAMILY OF THE DRIVER. BACK HERE LIVE, THERE IS AN OFFICER BACK HERE MEASURING A DISTANCE UP TO THIS CROSSING RIGHT HERE. INVESTIGATORS STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW FAST THIS TRAIN WAS GOING. FEDERAL RECORDS SAY THE SPEED LIMIT FOR TRAINS THROUGH HERE ABOUT 70 MILES IN OUR LIFE IN CASS COUNTY, MATT FLENER, KMBC9 NEWS. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, MATT. AND FEDEX HAS JUST RELEASED A STATEMENT SAYING WE EXTEND OUR DEEPEST CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF THOSE INVOLVED IN THIS ACCIDENT. SAFETY IS OUR HIGHEST PRIORITY AND WE ARE COOPERATING FULLY WITH T