Des Plaines police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 5:14 PM Tuesday to a report of a person hit by a train at Miner Street and Lee Street Des Plaines , IL. Police first on the scene relayed a report that a female victim was hit by a train. The victim was killed in the incident, and was under the train about 100 feet east of Lee Street on the Union Pacific Northwest Line.
Police later released information that a male/white victim in his 40’s was found without signs of life under the train after the report of a pedestrian hit by a train.
Witnesses reported that the victim stepped off the train platform in front of the train as the train approached the Des Plaines train station.
#Metra #upnw pedestrian incident at Des Plaines. pic.twitter.com/pjA8HE1z9A
— Evan (@TheEvanYouKnow) August 26, 2014
The train involved in the incident was train #629, which is scheduled to stop in Des Plaines at 5:08 p.m. after departing Ogilvie Transportation Center at 4:39 p.m.
Metra Train #629’s scheduled stop in Arlington Heights is 5:22 p.m.
UP-NW Advisory – Outbound Train #629 Scheduled To Arrive Crystal Lake At 5:56 P.M. – Pedestrian Incident http://t.co/7onDHeRl6Y
— Metra (@Metra) August 26, 2014
LIVE TRAFFIC MAP of neighborhood of fatal train-pedestrian incident …
DELAYED – Metra UPNW is shutdown in both directions for pedestrian incident in Des Plaines. pic.twitter.com/p5hp3GhdUb
— Greg Kelly (@CBS2Greg) August 26, 2014
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