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Yankiel Elias Rodriguez-Fontes

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Yankiel Elias Rodriguez-Fontes

Birth
Death
18 Aug 2017 (aged 17)
Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA
Burial
Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska, USA GPS-Latitude: 40.7484155, Longitude: -96.6958989
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Lincoln Police have identified two teenagers killed when a train hit their car early Friday morning as Yankiel Rodriguez and Emanuel Martinez. Both were 17.

Rodriguez and Martinez were seniors at Lincoln Southwest High School and both had previously attented Lincoln High.

Police say their southbound car went around the crossing arm and the vehicle was hit by the westbound train.

The crash happened around 12:30 a.m.

No one on the train was hurt. Investigators say there were nearly 300 people aboard.

The collision happened near south Folsom and west South Street.
Lincoln Police have identified two teenagers killed when a train hit their car early Friday morning as Yankiel Rodriguez and Emanuel Martinez. Both were 17.

Rodriguez and Martinez were seniors at Lincoln Southwest High School and both had previously attented Lincoln High.

Police say their southbound car went around the crossing arm and the vehicle was hit by the westbound train.

The crash happened around 12:30 a.m.

No one on the train was hurt. Investigators say there were nearly 300 people aboard.

The collision happened near south Folsom and west South Street.

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