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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The pistillate struck by an Amtrak bid successful northwest Fresno Saturday greeting has been identified by the Fresno County Coroner's Office.
Just earlier 10:30 a.m., Fresno constabulary were called to the country of Fruit and Ashlan Avenues for a study of a collision betwixt an Amtrak bid and a pedestrian.
They accidental they arrived to find 66-year-old Josephine Rico who had been struck. She suffered fatal injuries and died astatine the scene.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad constabulary took implicit the investigation.
Amtrak says their San Joaquins bid 702 was traveling from Sacramento to Bakersfield erstwhile the collision occurred.
No injuries were reported to the unit oregon the 120 passengers connected committee astatine the time.
Beth K. Toll, a Senior Public Relations Manager with Amtrak, released this connection pursuing Saturday's incident:
Preventing incidents and fatalities connected the railroad is simply a precedence for Amtrak. According to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), trespassing on railroad rights-of-way is the starring origin of rail-related deaths successful America, and railroad-highway people crossing incidents are the 2nd starring origin of rail-related deaths successful America. These incidents tin impact everyone involved—those who are injured oregon dice and their families, our bid crews, and our passengers. They also service arsenic captious reminders astir the value of obeying the instrumentality and of exercising utmost caution astir railroad tracks and people crossings. Amtrak continues to enactment intimately with Operation Lifesaver, Inc. (OLI) to #STOPTrackTragedies by emphasizing the obvious dangers of being connected railroad spot oregon disregarding warnings astatine obstruction crossings.
