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n A 90-year-old man was injured when the station wagon he was driving was struck by a train at 11:59 a.m. Monday in Arcadia, Kan., the Crawford County Sheriff’s Department said.
Robert W. Byington, of Garland, Kan., was taken by ambulance to Fort Scott Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott, Kan., authorities said. Byington was westbound on Arcadia Street and failed to stop at the Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks as a train was coming through, the department said. The train struck his vehicle and threw it into a ditch along the tracks, the department said. n A Joplin man and a woman were injured in a motorcycle accident at 2:05 p.m. Sunday on a county road about six miles northeast of Peoria in Ottawa County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said. The driver of the motorcycle, Gregory Joe Stephens, 56, was taken to Freeman Hospital West with serious injuries, the patrol said. His passenger, Susie Tuomuala, 53, hometown unavailable, was taken from the scene in a private vehicle, the patrol said. Their motorcycle was southbound when it overturned onto its side and slid 62 feet before striking a tree, the patrol said. n A 56-year-old man was injured in a motorcycle accident at 9:47 a.m. Saturday on a county road a little less than two miles west of Jay in Delaware County, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol said. Allmand Allen, of Tulsa, Okla., was flown by medical helicopter to St. John’s Hospital in Tulsa, the patrol said. Allen was eastbound when he lost control of the motorcycle on a curve, and it crossed the center line and struck a guardrail, the patrol said. 
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