Davis wouldn’t speculate on how fast the train was going when the woman was hit. He said data on the onboard event recorder will be studied. <\/p>\n
Lombard paramedics responded to the emergency on the tracks near Grace Street and St. Charles Road, according to Battalion Chief Ron Rakosnic. <\/p>\n
The incident happened about a half-mile east of the Metra train station at 20 S. Main St. <\/p>\n
Rakosnic said paramedics transported the victim to Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downer’s Grove.<\/p>\n
Rakosnic said the woman was alone at the time and couldn’t speculate on what happened. <\/p>\n
Metra spokesman Tom Miller said trains were delayed immediately after the incident, but have returned to normal. The tracks are shared by Metra and Union Pacific.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Read the original article on DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n A young woman, possibly a teenager, was struck and killed by a freight train in Lombard Saturday night, Union Pacific Railroad officials confirmed. Union Pacific spokesman Mark Davis said a freight train traveling from Chicago to North Platte, Neb., struck the woman at 10:55 p.m. The name of the victim is being withheld pending notification […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2OAk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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