Metra train kills pedestrian in Tinley Park
BY STEVE METSCH smetsch@southtownstar.com December 19, 2011 8:41AM
Signs mark the area where passengers cross the tracks to the Oak Park Avenue Metra Station in Tinley Park, Illinois, Monday, December, 19, 2011. A person was struck and killed by a train near the station late Sunday night. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times
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Updated: January 21, 2012 8:07AM
A Metra train struck and killed an unidentified man early Monday near downtown Tinley Park, authorities said.
The Rock Island Line train was pulling into the Oak Park Avenue station when it struck the man about 12:10 a.m., Metra spokesman Michael Gillis said.
“He had no ID on him. All we know is he was walking between the tracks near Ridgeland Avenue,” Tom Miller, another Metra spokesman, said.
Tinley Park police have not received any reports about a missing man, Cmdr. Steve Vaccaro said Monday night.
The train, scheduled to arrive in Joliet at 12:40 a.m., was stopped for about an hour and 50 minutes as emergency crews responded, according to Metra. It was the last train of the night on the line, Gillis said.
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