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17-year-old girl dies after getting struck by freight train

The Columbian
Published: May 10, 2015, 5:00pm

SEATTLE — A 17-year-old has been fatally struck by a BNSF Railway freight train in Silvana, northwest of Marysville.

The Seattle Times reports that BNSF spokesman Gus Melonas says that Kristi Bartz and another girl were on a trestle about 20 feet above a slough on the Stillaguamish River when a train approached. The other girl was able to jump out of the way.

The train crew sounded the whistle and applied the emergency brake.

Melonas said the train was going about 40 mph and had been traveling from Portland to Vancouver, B.C. He said the portion of the bridge where Kristi was struck was marked with no-trespassing signs.

Melonas says Kristi’s death is the ninth on BNSF tracks in Washington this year.

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