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Train crashes into car left on tracks

A car was left with no back end after a train slammed into it, Cobb County police said.

Credit: Channel 2 Action News

Credit: Channel 2 Action News

A car was left with no back end after a train slammed into it, Cobb County police said.
By Lauren Foreman
Oct 27, 2017

A Norfolk Southern train crashed into a car left on the tracks early Friday in Cobb County.

The train pushed the car near Powder Springs and Angham roads, according to Channel 2 Action News.

When police found it, the car had no back end and the driver was nowhere to be found, the news station reported.

No other details were released.

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