He said a half-dozen crossings were blocked by the stopped freight train as an investigation was conducted.<\/p>\n
The President Street crossing where the accident occurred will be closed for several days to allow Union Pacific to replace a switching box that was damaged, he said.<\/p>\n
The identity of the driver, a man and the sole occupant of a red Toyota, was not disclosed pending notification of family members.<\/p>\n
He was alive when taken away by paramedics, but died at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, Maloney said.<\/p>\n
The car was going south on President when it was struck by the eastbound freight train.<\/p>\n
Metra trains on the Union Pacific West line are experiencing significant delays, according to Metra’s Web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n – Staff report<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n Read the original article from Tribune News Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n A motorist who tried to beat a freight train by going around downed railroad gates in downtown Wheaton was struck and killed this morning, police said. The accident, which happened about 10:35 a.m., continued to disrupt traffic in the area some two hours later, said Deputy Police Chief Thomas Maloney. He said a half-dozen crossings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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