Sounder service resumes after train-pedestrian accident
Mar 18, 2015, 5:54 PM | Updated: 8:46 pm
A BNSF Railway spokesman says a 29-year-old man who reportedly was lying on railroad tracks was struck and killed Wednesday evening by a Sounder commuter train in the south Seattle suburb of Auburn.
Spokesman Gus Melonas says the crew blew the train’s emergency whistle and applied the brake but couldn’t avoid hitting the man.
Melonas says no one aboard the train was hurt.
The death is under investigation.
The accident occurred near the East Valley Highway near 24th Street.
All trains were released and put back into service just before 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
