Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Man Fatally Struck By Train

  • {West Virginia}...Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputy Robert Sell says the death of 51 year old John Kinner of Shenandoah Junction along train tracks Wednesday morning was an accident. Kinner reportedly walked the tracks to the Duffields Station every morning to catch a train to Maryland for work. Deputy Sell says, normally, train traffic is westbound so it would be coming toward him, butm in this case, the four engines were actually traveling eastbound, coming up behind him, when the CSX train engines hit him at about 6:00 A.M. Deputy Sell says the train operators tried to warn Kinner by blowing the whistles and having the lights illuminated, but Kinner never looked around.