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Pedestrian killed by BNSF train in midtown Sacramento today

Author: Matt K

Date: 06-04-2011 - 20:01

From SACBEE.COM

Train kills man on tracks in midtown
By Carlos Alcala and Andy Furillo

A man with a beer and a Bible who may have been sitting on the Union Pacific Railroad tracks near 20th and C streets in midtown was run over and killed by a train today.

Authorities did not release details on the death that was reported to Sacramento police at 2:17 p.m. One UP employee who asked not to be identified said the man had a 24-ounce can of beer and the Bible and was sitting in the middle of the tracks underneath a trestle when he was struck by the BNSF Railway three-engine, 4,500-foot train.

One witness said the engineer apparently saw the man from a block and a half away and tried to stop the train well before it struck the victim. Unable to come to a halt, the train dragged the man several dozen feet.

The train cut off east-west access across almost all of midtown for about two hours until coroner's investigators removed the body and UP and BNSF officials got the train moving north again.

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Pedestrian killed by BNSF train in midtown Sacramento today	Matt K	06-04-2011 - 20:01
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Matt K Wrote:
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> From SACBEE.COM
> 
> 
> Train kills man on tracks in midtown
> By Carlos Alcala and Andy Furillo
> 
> A man with a beer and a Bible who may have been
> sitting on the Union Pacific Railroad tracks near
> 20th and C streets in midtown was run over and
> killed by a train today.
> 
> Authorities did not release details on the death
> that was reported to Sacramento police at 2:17
> p.m. One UP employee who asked not to be
> identified said the man had a 24-ounce can of beer
> and the Bible and was sitting in the middle of the
> tracks underneath a trestle when he was struck by
> the BNSF Railway three-engine, 4,500-foot train.
> 
> One witness said the engineer apparently saw the
> man from a block and a half away and tried to stop
> the train well before it struck the victim. Unable
> to come to a halt, the train dragged the man
> several dozen feet.
> 
> The train cut off east-west access across almost
> all of midtown for about two hours until coroner's
> investigators removed the body and UP and BNSF
> officials got the train moving north again.

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