Wrong Time, Wrong Place

On August 9, we posted a couple of synchronicites about people who have repeat experiences in the same time and place as their relatives or friends had months or years before. Sometimes, these synchronicities are clearly serial tricksters. But other times, like with the next story, they just seem cruel.
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In 1991, Cristina Vernoni, aged 19, was killed at an unguarded railway crossing in Reggio Emilia, Northern Italy. Four years later, her 57 year old father was driving to work on his regular route which took him over the same railway crossing when his car was struck by a train. It was dragged for several dozen yards before the train finally stopped. Even more coincidentally, the driver of the train, Domenico Serafino, was the very same driver who had killed Vernoni’s daughter four years earlier. Investigators said that the death was entirely accidental – ruling out suicide.