Monday, October 24, 2011

Man Killed By Train

  • {West Virginia}...Kanawha County Deputies say the believe John Matthew Haynes, 25, of St. Albans was sitting on the tracks near  MacCorkle Ave. in St. Albans huffing the fumes from several butane lighters when he was fatally struck by a train around 8:00 P.M. Saturday night. The conductor says, although he laid down on the train's whistle, the victim never moved, but there was no way to stop the train, and it struck the man as he sat on the cross-ties against the rail. Kanawha County Deputy Lt. Sean Crosier says investigators found several open disposable lighters nearby, and deputies believe that caused some sort of altered state of consciousness and he either just didn't hear the train whistle or he just ignored it.