6-18-2018
TOPPENISH, Wash. — A BNSF train hauling empty grain cars struck and killed a 17-year-old boy Saturday morning in Toppenish.
Railway spokesman Gus Melonas says the eastbound train was traveling 47 mph when the crew saw the boy between the rails on the tracks and applied the emergency braking system.
The train couldn’t stop in time and the boy was pronounced dead at the scene.
His name hasn’t been released.