{"id":346737,"date":"2010-02-21T15:43:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T20:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/pedestrian-struck-killed-by-train-in-lombard"},"modified":"2010-02-21T15:43:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T20:43:23","slug":"pedestrian-struck-killed-by-train-in-lombard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/346737","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian struck, killed by train in Lombard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>A young woman, possibly a teenager, was struck and killed by a freight train in Lombard Saturday night, Union Pacific Railroad officials confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Union Pacific spokesman Mark Davis said a freight train traveling from Chicago to North Platte, Neb., struck the woman at 10:55 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The name of the victim is being withheld pending notification of family, officials at the DuPage County Coroner&#8217;s office said Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Davis said the accident is under investigation by railroad officials and the Lombard Police Department. Calls to police for more information were not immediately returned Sunday. <span id=\"more-20788\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Davis wouldn&#8217;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<p>Lombard paramedics responded to the emergency on the tracks near Grace Street and St. Charles Road, according to Battalion Chief Ron Rakosnic. <\/p>\n<p>The incident happened about a half-mile east of the Metra train station at 20 S. Main St. <\/p>\n<p>Rakosnic said paramedics transported the victim to Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downer&#8217;s Grove.<\/p>\n<p>Rakosnic said the woman was alone at the time and couldn&#8217;t speculate on what happened. <\/p>\n<p>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<p>Read the original article on <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyherald.com\/story\/?id=360882&amp;src=143\" title=\"Pedestrian struck, killed by train in Lombard\" rel='nofollow'>DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Distributed via <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\" rel='nofollow'>Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6U59JJUZmHzpm6nx8NKkn78UbNA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6U59JJUZmHzpm6nx8NKkn78UbNA\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6U59JJUZmHzpm6nx8NKkn78UbNA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6U59JJUZmHzpm6nx8NKkn78UbNA\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=2Aq8hNXskuE:G-d8SW4Pw30:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=2Aq8hNXskuE:G-d8SW4Pw30:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=2Aq8hNXskuE:G-d8SW4Pw30:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=2Aq8hNXskuE:G-d8SW4Pw30:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/2Aq8hNXskuE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346737","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=346737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}