10-15-2018
STEILACOOM, Wash. — A man is dead after getting struck by a train in Steilacoom.
The News Tribune reports the man was walking along the tracks Sunday morning and jumped to the other set of tracks to avoid a northbound freight train, but was then hit by a southbound Amtrak train.
The man in his late 20’s appeared to be a transient from South Carolina and died at the scene.
Gus Melonas with BNSF Railways says this is the seventeenth death on railroad tracks in Washington state this year.