TAMAROA, Ill. (AP) - Services are scheduled for a man killed when a coal train hit his pickup truck in southern Illinois.
Twenty-seven-year-old Jeremy Nehrkorn of Pinckneyville was injured in the Perry County crash about 1:30 p.m. Monday and died about three hours later at a St. Louis hospital.
It’s unclear what caused the accident involving the Canadian National Railroad train between Du Quoin and Pinckneyville.
Services for Nehrkorn will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Friendship Church of Christ in Tamaroa. Burial will be in Galum Presbyterian Cemetery in Pinckneyville.
Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m. Friday until service time at the church.
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