9-11-2018

SEATTLE, Wash. — A man walking across the tracks between two BNSF Railway freight cars was struck and killed in Seattle.

The Seattle Times reports the incident occurred at about 3:00 P.M. Monday., but few other details have been released.

BNSF spokesman Gus Melonas says this was the seventeenth time a person was fatally hit by a train in Washington this year.