Mother of 5 killed when car is struck by train on Christmas Eve, Missouri cops say
A mother driving home from work to celebrate Christmas Eve with her five daughters was struck by a train and killed, Missouri police said and local news outlets said.
The 35-year-old woman’s car was disabled on train tracks in Berkley when the train hit the driver’s side of her car, a crash report by the Missouri Highway Patrol said. She died at the scene.
“She left behind 5 wonderful children that she loved and worked very hard for,” her grandmother wrote in a GoFundMe. “They were her life and she was theirs, and now suddenly she’s gone.”
Now, community members in Ferguson are collecting clothes to donate to Ashley Hogan’s daughters, who are between 6 and 15 years old, as they go to live with their grandmother, police said in a Dec. 28 Facebook post.
“I never in my wildest imagination thought that at my age I would be taken on raising five children and I am starting over from scratch,” Hogan’s mother told KMOV.
Ferguson is about a 15-mile drive northwest from St. Louis.
This story was originally published December 30, 2024 at 8:39 AM with the headline "Mother of 5 killed when car is struck by train on Christmas Eve, Missouri cops say."
