TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A Burlington Northern Santa Fe spokesman says a 20-year-old woman was killed Monday evening by an Amtrak train at Sunnyside Beach about 15 miles south of Tacoma.
Spokesman Gus Melonas (mel-OWN’-us) says witnesses report that several young women were near the double mainline tracks. Apparently a northbound freight train had just cleared the area on set of tracks when the woman was struck by the southbound Amtrak traveling on the adjacent tracks. She was not immediately identified.
Melonas says there is a pedestrian crossing in the area, with a warning horn as well as flashers and a rail crossing sign.
The Amtrak train and a freight train were temporarily held up.
Last year, Melonas says 18 people were killed by trains in Washington.
