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Article: Train-van crash survivor thankful for car seat safety Son unhurt; family meticulous about installation
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 7, 2009
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As a 94-car freight train came barreling toward her minivan stuck
on the tracks, she was pulled out by an Elm Grove police officer.
But the officer, along with her husband, could not get to the
couple's 23-month-old son.
Time ran out and the train hit the minivan, tossing it onto a
grassy area. The boy's father, Scott Partenfelder, and Officer John
Krahn were severely injured.
The car seat never moved. Mackale was unharmed.
"He doesn't even have a bruise or scratch," Ensley-Partenfelder
said in her first interview since the horrific crash.
Instead of watching her son die, Ensley-Partenfelder saw the
payoff of the couple's efforts to always ensure their children were
safe in their car seats.
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