Kent woman standing on tracks struck and killed by train | Update

Published 4:55 pm Tuesday, February 3, 2026

A 64-year-old Kent woman died after getting hit by a train while reportedly standing on the tracks in Kent in the 1000 block of First Avenue North.

Officers were dispatched at about 5:51 p.m. Monday, Feb. 2 regarding a train striking a pedestrian on the BNSF Railway northbound tracks, according to a Feb. 3 Kent Police news release. Officers arrived and found the woman did not survive the impact.

Officers viewed a video during the initial investigation that showed the woman standing on the tracks waving at the train as it approached, according to police. The conductors advised that they utilized their horn in an attempt to divert the woman off the tracks and immediately attempted to stop. The conductors located the woman a short distance away from where she had been standing on the tracks.

Pamela Christine Slott died of multiple blunt force injuries, according to the Feb. 3 report by the King County Medical Examiner’s Office, which ruled the manner of death as an accident.

“We would like to remind everyone that trains moving on tracks can appear deceptively further away and as travelling much slower than their actual speed,” according to a Kent Police statement.