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A Young Man Left Home to Deliver Packages. A Train Killed Him at a Rural Kentucky Crossing. Here Is What the Railroad and Amazon Do Not Want His Family to Know. You are reading this because someone you love did not come home from work. A 23-year-old man from Evansville got behind the wheel of an Amazon delivery truck on a day that started like every other workday, drove his route through Webster County, Kentucky, and reached a railroad crossing on Slaughters Elmwood Road. A train was coming. What happened next is still under investigation by the Webster County Sheriff’s Office — but what we know already is that a young man is dead, and the questions that matter most are the ones nobody has answered yet. Was the crossing marked with flashing lights and gates, or just a silent crossbuck sign? Did the train sound its horn? Were the sight lines clear, or were they choked with vegetation and terrain the railroad was legally required to maintain? Was the Amazon routing software sending drivers through a crossing it knew was dangerous, on a deadline that made stopping to look feel like falling behind? Those questions are not theoretical. They…