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Amtrak officials confirmed a train collided with a vehicle Thursday morning near Holloway Road. No one on the train was injured.

SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Emergency crews are on the scene of a fatal collision involving a train and a car in Holland Thursday morning.

The incident occurred at the railroad tracks near Front Street and Holloway Road at approximately 7:15 a.m., according to a press release from the Ohio State Highway Patrol. Michael Malczewski, 38, was traveling southbound on Holloway Road.

The gates at the railroad crossing were down, authorities said, and there was a stopped train away from the intersection on the tracks.

Malczewski drove around the gates when an Amtrak train traveling west on the other set of tracks in the intersection struck the vehicle. The train came to a stop west of the intersection near Wentworth Road with the car still on the tracks.

Emergency crews pronounced Malczewski deceased on the scene. According to Amtrak, neither its crew nor customers aboard the train were injured in the crash.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol reported minor injuries among some of the 163 passengers on board the 13 cars of the Amtrak train and said none of the crew were injured.

The Springfield Township Fire Department vehicles and other law enforcement agencies were also at the scene.

An official Amtrak train tracking web page appeared to show the train departed from New York City with the next station on its schedule Bryan, Ohio.

An Amtrak spokesperson told WTOL 11 that no injuries to its customers or crew were reported. The company said Amtrak officials will be at the scene until the incident is cleared and the first responders finish their work.

In a 2:30 p.m. update, the Amtrak spokesperson said the train departed the area three hours after the initial incident and offered a reminder of safety at railroad crossings in the following statement:

"These incidents can affect everyone involved - those who are injured or die and their families, our train crews, and our passengers. They also serve as critical reminders about the importance of obeying the law and of exercising extreme caution around railroad tracks and crossings."

The spokesperson also said the company continues to work closely with efforts to spread railroad track safety awareness.

The incident remains under investigation, authorities said.

Residents in the area told WTOL 11 that collisions with trains at the intersection are an all-too-common occurrence.

"I witnessed enough of them that I don't pay a lot of attention," Springfield Township resident Tom Dollison said. "That's why I didn't come down right away. I knew something had happened."

Previous crashes in the area have led to more safety measures being implemented, said Shawn Fosgate, the assistant commander of OSHP's Bowling Green post.

“They put safeguards in place to try to make that intersection better," Fosgate said. "This is a high-speed rail. This train was coming through at a pretty good rate of speed since it was an Amtrak train, and most of the trains usually do come through here a little bit quicker than most other tracks.”

Dollison has lived in the area for more than 60 years and has taught family how to stay safe around the tracks.

But despite warnings posted, Dollison said he has seen many drivers ignore signage.

“If people would obey the rules and wouldn’t be in such a hurry to get somewhere ... there wouldn’t be that many accidents," he said.

Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct the location of the collision.

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An Amtrak train pulled by the same locomotive involved in a fatal car-train crash Thursday morning in suburban Toledo had a minor derailment Friday morning east of Cleveland after a piece of equipment dislodged from that locomotive.

The eastbound Lake Shore Limited from Chicago to New York and Boston was officially canceled at 8:05 a.m., a little more than two hours after it left the Cleveland station. It had stopped in Toledo earlier Friday morning.

The train stopped near Wickliffe, Ohio, shortly after leaving the Cleveland station at 5:52 a.m. Its crew reported hitting a crossing “hard,” with damage to the lead engine and one wheel assembly on a cafe car near the front of the train derailing.

Whether the incident in Wickliffe was related in any way to the collision Thursday in Holland, Ohio, was not immediately known. But photos Steven Heister, a rail enthusiast, took of the damaged engine after it stopped near a crossing at Lloyd Road showed damage in the same part of the locomotive that hit an automobile the day before.

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By the time Mr. Heister visited the scene Friday, CSX maintenance employees had retrieved the plow belonging to Amtrak engine 130 and placed it on the back of a work truck.

CSX workers also could be seen working at a private roadway crossing on the grounds of a Lubrizol plant west of Lloyd Road, Mr. Heister said. Any damage to that crossing was not visible from public property, he said.

Marc Magliari, an Amtrak spokesman in Chicago, said none of 145 passengers and crew aboard the train Friday were injured when the “mechanical issue” occurred about 6:05 a.m.

Substitute buses were being provided for the travelers on board, and the incident’s cause was under investigation, Mr. Magliari said.

As a result, the westbound Lake Shore Limited sections originating in New York and Boston on Friday night were canceled, he said.

Mr. Magliari declined to comment on specifics of the “mechanical issue” or whether it was related to the crash the previous day involving the same engine.

Asked if the engine’s plow had broken loose to cause the incident, Mr. Magliari said he would not engage in “speculation.”

The westbound Lake Shore Limited that left Toledo at 6:40 a.m. Thursday hit a car at Holloway Road in Holland 12 minutes later, killing the car’s driver.

The Ohio State Highway Patrol said Michael Anthony Malczewski, 38, of Toledo, drove around lowered warning gates after observing a stopped freight train in the distance. His car was crushed by the passenger train approaching from the opposite direction on a parallel track.

Patrol Sgt. Shawn Fosgate noted during a news conference afterward that the crash had caused minor visible damage to the locomotive. That damage included breaking one of the locomotive’s headlights.

The train resumed its journey once the on-scene investigation was concluded and the victim and automobile wreckage were removed. It arrived in Chicago slightly more than three hours late after being stopped in Springfield Township for about 3½ hours.

Equipment arriving in Chicago on the westbound Lake Shore Limited often is cleaned and serviced on a same-day basis for that evening’s eastbound trip, which is scheduled to leave Chicago at 10:30 p.m. Toledo time.

The westbound train’s late arrival Thursday would have left just over eight hours for that to occur, not considering time required for arriving passengers to disembark, moving the train out of the station for servicing and to turn it around, and then boarding passengers for the eastbound trip.

According to Amtrak, the eastbound train left Chicago on time.

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October 26, 2023 — 11.50am

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Tom Holland (left), 55, and Dominic Sandbrook, 49, are the British historians and brainy friends behind the unlikely global smash-hit podcast The Rest Is History.

Tom: We met in our publisher’s office for a charity quiz in 2005. I’d signed with the publisher earlier and then Dominic got signed. So I felt like the dog in the house and a new dog had been introduced. There was a bit of hackles being up and sniffing each other’s bottoms, as it were. But we sat next to each other and got on tremendously.

We share a kind of inner nerd that we were nervous to reveal even to our wives. Neither of them would have any interest in watching the director’s cut of The Lord of the Rings, which lasts for more than 11 hours. So we secretly agreed that watching it together would be our tryst. We adored every minute.

My brother [historian James Holland] was doing a podcast on World War II and in 2020, the producers wanted to try another history one. Dominic was the first person I thought of doing it with. Every time I ran into him, our friendship just hummed back into life immediately. And because his field is modern history, that set the parameters of the podcast: I’d do the ancient history and he the modern.

“That’s the essence of friendship: gauging emotions very precisely.”

Tom Holland

In December 2021, I suddenly had this terrible cancer diagnosis: they thought it was likely it had spread through my bowel and into my lymph nodes. I told Dominic. If we had been in an American drama, we’d have been bursting into tears. But as Englishmen of a particular class and age, the idea of having an emotional outburst is appalling. Dominic’s reaction was, “Oh, dear, that’s bad.” And then he sent a text saying, “Hope all’s ok.” I knew that he was expressing depths of feeling that perhaps another person would express in writing long emails. But it turned out everything was fine; the diagnosis was vastly overinflated.

We know each other so well that if one of us is facing something grim, we know exactly what to say in a way that will not embarrass the other. That’s the essence of friendship: gauging emotions very precisely.

Occasionally, Dominic’s grumpiness annoys me. There are times where I think something is a brilliant idea and I feel like a frustrated Gandalf faced with a Bilbo who’s refusing to leave the Shire to go on an adventure. Rare is the week where I’m not having some dream in which Dominic is saying no to my plans, such as: “We’ve got a time machine to the Roman Empire!” “No!” he’d say.

I describe Dominic as a John Bull character [a stout, frock-coated, country-dwelling satirical figure created in the 1700s] and Dominic alludes to me being a metropolitan, ragù-eating fop, while he’s off hewing oak in an English field. I think he slightly overdoes the idea that he’s the voice of the people. I write about the Colosseum and Pompeii, he writes about [1970s British PM] James Callaghan and income-tax policy. I think he should give me more respect.

Dominic: It was obvious from the beginning that Tom’s intellectually confident. I’m not over-crippled by intellectual humility myself, so it was great to meet somebody who’s confident and relaxed in their knowledge. Tom doesn’t take himself too seriously, so that meant we were kindred spirits.

“We’re former boarding school boys, so we’ve learnt to repress all traces of human feeling.”

Dominic Sandbrook

About six months into the pandemic, Tom rang and said he’d been thinking about this podcast. I immediately said yes. I thought it would be like an evening a week – if that. If you’d said then that we’d spend so much time talking to each other, and indeed coming to Australia [Melbourne on November 18; Sydney on November 23], it would have been a slightly more terrifying prospect.

People ask, “Oh, is it like a marriage?” It’s actually more like a marriage than you’d think. You have to tolerate each other’s quirks and recognise when the other is tired or grumpy. But we’ve done more than 400 episodes and a reasonable job of not falling out. We’re former boarding-school boys, so we’ve learnt to repress all traces of human feeling. If my family had been run over by a bulldozer and we had a recording at 10am, I like to think I’d do it, and then say, “By the way, I’ve got a bit of an issue; we might have to postpone next week’s recording.”

In any relationship, there’s always a danger you end up playing your designated part. He’s Mr Enthusiastic: loves people, gregarious, mad ideas. I’m grumpy and gruff. I often think these are not who we really are, but then I look at our WhatsApp conversations, and my contributions are “No, I’d rather die than do that” or “Tell him to go away”.

I’d say Tom’s stuff is more esoteric than mine. I can imagine Tom as a 19th-century vicar earnestly discussing Darwin’s theory of evolution; that would be death to me. I’d rather study my bank statements. My job with Tom is not just to rein him in, but also to get him to remember the audience. He’s the man in a hot air balloon always trying to take off, and I’m the bloke pulling down on the ropes to keep it grounded.

We’ve never been rivals because we work on different periods of history, but we do tease each other. When we did a literary festival in Devon, a critic had just reviewed my book and kindly compared me to [the ancient Greek historian] Thucydides. I said to Tom, “Have you seen The Times?” He said, “I have. It’s awful. What a terrible day to be meeting you and to be here.” On holiday years ago, I sent him a photo of a Portuguese bookshop where a table was piled high with his books and said, “This has really ruined my holiday.”

If there’s any friction – or maybe more a raising of eyebrows – it’s because Tom will massively stuff his diary with things. He’s also technically impractical. The producer has gone to his house just to unmute him or plug his headphones into the right socket. With anybody else you might become impatient, but I merely have to go on Zoom and see him enthusiastically grinning and any accumulated exasperation melts away. It’s impossible to be cross with him.

To read more from Good Weekend magazine, visit our page at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Brisbane Times.

Kevin Holland has created loads of headlines during the UFC 287 fight week. He has been involved in two separate altercations with Jorge Masvidal on two separate occasions leading up to the much-anticipated PPV event this weekend. But, he will be fighting Santiago Ponzinibbio in the main card of UFC 287 and Dana White recently took to Instagram to promote the bout.

However, under the post from the UFC President, one fan pointed out something very interesting. As Ponzinibbio and Holland faced off after the official weigh-in ceremony, a tattoo was visible on Holland’s left shoulder. The tattoo was of a man with curly hair and had an uncanny resemblance to UFC bantamweight fighter, Sean O’Malley.

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Instagram user, “marcocarvalho90” wrote, “Why does Kevin got a tattoo of O’Malley on his arm?”

According to a report from Body Art Guru, it is indeed Sean O’Malley who features on Kevin Holland’s body. While fans will definitely wonder why Sean finds a place for himself among Kevin’s tattoo collection, there are no comments available from Holland on the matter.

The real meaning behind the Sean O’Malley tattoo on Kevin Holland

As previously mentioned, there are reports that confirm Kevin Holland has a Sean O’Malley among his 17 tattoos. “Suga Sean” is also a tattoo enthusiast, and got a tattoo of himself on his calf. But some fans are not convinced that it is indeed an O’Malley tattoo. One Twitter user also pointed to the possibility of it being an anime reference. The fan added on Twitter that it might be an “Afro Samurai” tattoo.

There are good reasons for the fans to think that it is an Afro-Samurai tattoo. The anime character has an afro and wears a bandana on his head. The tattoo character on Holland’s shoulder also has an afro and a bandana.

So the tattoo does resemble the anime character closely. But fans will have to wait for confirmation from the man himself to know the actual meaning behind the tattoo. It is worth mentioning that “The Trailblazer” has also imprinted his initials “KH” underneath the tattoo.

Do you like the tattoo on Kevin Holland? Let us know in the comments down below.

One of the best horror sequels ever made, 1983’s Psycho II has received its own making-of book titled Oh Mother, What Have You Done?, BD has learned this week.

Oh Mother, What Have You Done? is AVAILABLE NOW in both hardback and paperback through Amazon and at Terror Time (for copies autographed by Tom Holland)!

In the 176-page book from Holland House Ent., Psycho II screenwriter Tom Holland plunges into the fascinating story of the making of his critically acclaimed horror sequel.

Authored by Tom Holland and containing unpublished memoirs by late Psycho II director Richard Franklin and conversations with the film’s editor Andrew London, Oh Mother, What Have You Done? offers fans a unique glimpse into the continuation of the beloved Psycho film franchise, which created nightmares for millions of people showering worldwide.

Created using never-before-seen production materials and photos – many from Holland’s own personal archive – Oh Mother, What Have You Done? abounds with rare hand-written development and production notes, early budgets, personal Polaroids and more, all set against fascinating conversations with the film’s writer, director and editor which document the development, filming, and reception of the much-celebrated Psycho II.

Holland said in a statement, “I wrote Psycho II, the first sequel that began the Psycho legacy, forty years ago this past summer, and the film was a huge success in the year 1983, but who remembers? To my surprise, apparently, they do, because on the film’s fortieth anniversary love from fans began to pour in, much to my amazement and pleasure. And then (Psycho II director) Richard Franklin’s unpublished memoirs arrived unexpectedly. I’d had no idea he’d written them before he passed in 2007.”

“Reading them was like being transported back in time, and I had to share them, along with my memories and personal archives with the fans of Psycho, the sequels, and the excellent Bates Motel. I hope they enjoy reading the book as much as I did in putting it together,” Holland continues. “My thanks to Andrew London, who edited, and to Mr. Hitchcock, without whom none of this would have existed.”