Calif. train kills woman with stroller; baby fine
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) - October 9, 2011
The woman was trying to walk through the Riverside crossing when
the stroller became stuck in the tracks, police said. She managed
to free the stroller, but she couldn't escape the oncoming
Metrolink commuter train.
"She didn't quite make it," Riverside police Sgt. Dan Warren
said. "The baby's fine, but she got hit."
He did not have further details, including the woman's identity
and her connection to the child.
Passenger Joseph Avila said he and the several dozen other
passengers on the train going from Oceanside to San Bernardino did
not feel the collision.
He told a local television station that the train stopped and a conductor said
there had been a fatality. "Probably about 45 minutes after what
happened, he finally told us that a lady and a baby got struck."
Both police and railroad officials were investigating the
collision.