City officials and CSX, which operated the train, said Biloxi with its many railroad crossings has a high number of train crashes for the region. The crossing's red lights lit up and the safety gates descended with the bus stuck on the tracks, Perkins told the station. The National Transportation Safety Board said in a message on Twitter it was sending an investigative team. WLOX, in footage of the accident's aftermath, showed the bus standing upright, diagonally across the tracks with the train stopped at its side. The bus was marked as operated by ECHO Transportation, Creel said.

Source: Standard Digital March 08, 2017 08:48 UTC