HARVEY, Ill.—Four people died early Wednesday in a south Chicago suburb when an SUV hit the last rail car of a moving freight train at a crossing and caught fire, officials said. The Dodge Durango struck the CSX train about 2 a.m. at a crossing on the east side of Harvey, a south suburban community, killing the vehicle’s four occupants, said Jason Baumann, a spokesman for the city of Harvey. “It drove into the freight train,” he said, adding that the crash remains under investigation. Baumann said the bodies of the four people were removed from the SUV and would be identified by the coroner. CSX said in a statement that the vehicle carrying four people collided with the last rail car of a moving CSX train that consisted of three locomotives and 47 rail cars. “There were no injuries to the train crew. CSX extends its deepest sympathies to …
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