SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 19, 2018 (Gephardt Daily) — A woman is in serious condition after she reportedly lay down next to a FrontRunner track in Salt Lake City Tuesday night.
Utah Transit Authority spokesman Carl Arky told Gephardt Daily the incident happened at around 8:30 p.m. in the area of 900 S. 600 West.
Arky said the 35-year-old woman lay down next to the track, for an unknown reason, around four or five minutes before a train came. He said the trains are wider than the tracks, so the train did strike the woman.
She was transported by ground ambulance to an area hospital in serious condition; Arky said she has head lacerations, broken bones in her legs and a wound on her side.
It’s not clear if the woman was under the influence at the time of the incident.
Arky said the train was traveling “at a good clip,” but the driver either saw the woman right before she was struck or was aware that the incident had occurred, and stopped the train.
A TRAX bridge was activated on both northbound and southbound FrontRunner trains from Salt Lake Central to Murray. Normal service has since resumed.
Gephardt Daily will have more on this developing story as information is made available.
