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GRAND PRAIRIE
As a train rumbles by UJ , the Grand Prairie City
Commission
is threatened with legal action regarding
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fatalities resulting from train-car accidents.
Attorney Art Clifton says he represents Carol Ann Traver
who was killed June th when her stalled car was struckby a train at the southeast Fifth street grade crossing,
Clifton s ays he implores the commission to take three
steps. He wants under-passes constructed at each end of
grand Prairie, plus erection of barricades at each of the
Another
eleven grade crossings step to take to end the
bloodshed, he says, is to enforce the city ordinance which
prohibits train
pohiis tr from going faster than 30 miles per hour.
Clifton says the citizens of grand Prairie want something
done to stop the fatalities. He says twelve persons have
been killed at train crossings in the last ten years. One
reason might be that trains are high-balling it through
townNt fifty miles per hour. Clifton has more than a- ur
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Grand Prairie], script, July 11, 1961; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc976492/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.