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Baltimore light rail trains collide with car downtown, killing 1 and injuring 2

A woman died in the crash on Thursday morning and a 30-year-old man and 7-year-old child were injured.

A car and two light rail trains collided in downtown Baltimore on Thursday morning, killing one person and injuring two more, authorities said.

The fatal 7:30 a.m. crash happened about a dozen blocks west of City Hall and about the same distance north of Oriole Park at Camden Yards, according to the Baltimore City Fire Department.

All three victims were in the same car, headed east on Mulberry Street when it collided with a Maryland Transit Administration Light RailLink train going south on Howard Street, officials said.

A short time later, the car was struck again, this time by another light rail train headed north on Howard Street, wedging the car in between.

Firefighters and police officers had to pull the victims out of mangled wreckage.

The woman was pronounced dead at the scene, while a 30-year-man and 7-year-old child were taken to the hospital, the fire department said. Both are of those injured are expected to survive.