Freight train kills woman in Kent
Published 12:52 pm Monday, July 17, 2017
A woman died on Sunday after getting hit by a BNSF Railway freight train earlier in the morning in Kent.
Reports were received about a female found on the platform for the Sounder Station, 301 Railroad Ave. N., said BNSF spokesman Gus Melonas, in a phone interview. He estimated the time of the accident at about 8:30 a.m.
“A freight train made impact with the woman,” Melonas said.
BNSF had no reports initially from train crews about striking anyone, Melonas said. But investigators later determined the woman had been hit by a train just north of West Smith Street and east of the Kent Station shopping center.
The King County Medical Examiner’s Office has not yet released the woman’s name.
On June 23, a freight train struck and killed Antonio Sanchez, 35, of Auburn, on the tracks in south Kent at about 5:19 a.m. near the trestle over South 266th Street, south of Willis Street and west of Central Avenue South.
Ten people have been killed so far this year on BNSF tracks in the state, Melonas said.
