LONGVIEW — A bicyclist is awake and alert after being critically injured when he was struck and caught under a freight train earlier this week, according a Washington state hospital spokesman.
PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center spokesman Randy Querin said Thursday that Cowlitz County resident Rudy Newton, 56, of Kelso was in satisfactory condition with normal vital signs, The Daily News reported.
A BNSF Railway train operator reported that a bicyclist was pinned under a train around 11 p.m., Kelso Police Sgt. Kevin Tate said, adding that train employees said they braked and came to a stop after seeing something on the tracks.
“The information that officers received right away was that there was a collision between a person and a train,” Tate said. “They got there and they found a bicycle that had been struck by a stopped train.”