UPDATED: Person Struck and Killed by Commuter Rail Train
The incident reportedly happened near Exit 17 on the Mass. Pike.
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Update 9:27 p.m.
Police are saying the man who was struck and killed tonight by a Framingham/Worcester commuter rail train was a 58-year-old Maryland resident, according to MBTA Spokesman Joe Pesaturo.
According to MBTA alerts, Framingham/Worcester commuter rail trains are facing more than 60 minute delays due to the incident.
8 p.m.
MBTA Spokesman Joe Pesaturo has confirmed that a 40-year-old male railroad trespasser was struck and killed this evening by an outbound commuter rail train on the Framingham/Worcester line.
The incident happened around 6:40 p.m., Pesaturo said in an email to Newton Patch.
Transit Police are currently investigating the incident.
Update 7:33 p.m.
The MBTA Transit Police have confirmed via Twitter that a person has been struck and killed by a Commuter Rail train in the area of Newton Street in Brighton.
Transit Police are currently on scene.
7:24 p.m.
According to @LawrenceWCVB on Twitter:
An outbound Worcester Line train (P563) struck a tresspasser on the tracks near the Allston/Newton line. 450-500 souls on board.
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A person has been struck and killed on the Commuter Rail tracks near Newton Corner this evening, according to scanner reports.
Twitter user @firephoto161 and and @matredsoxfan2 are both reporting that Newton Fire has confirmed a fatal incident on the Framingham/Worcester Commuter Rail tracks. The incident reportedly happened near Mass. Pike Exit 17 on the Newton/Boston line.
State Police have responded to the scene, according to scanner reports.
Although no official delays on the Commuter Rail line have been announced by the MBTA, the line will likely be shut down while crews work the scene.
BP
7:26 am on Sunday, September 23, 2012
Looks like the natural path for people to take from Newton Street under the interstate to the water. What makes it railroad murder ---nothing was done to keep people out or give them safe passage under/over the tracks or some signals.
http://www.nrc.uscg.mil/reports/rwservlet?standard_web+inc_seq=1025277
ON 09/22/12 AT 1823 HOURS, MBTA TRAIN P56322 FATALLY STRUCK A TRESPASSER AT MP QB 6.2 ON THE BOSTON SUBDIVISION. THIS IS LOCATED NEAR THE NEWTON STREET AND BIGELOW STREET INTERSECTION IN NEWTON, MA.
Paul Lascari
10:40 pm on Sunday, September 23, 2012
BP: What you are saying makes no sense. The only place to go once one crosses the tracks is to cross the interstate on foot! Ridicules. This person had no business going on active and busy railroad tracks. No signs can stop stupidity or possibly the desire to take ones own life.
MEM
10:40 pm on Sunday, September 23, 2012
BP. That is what is wrong with this country. Blame everyone else. No self accountability. Railroads put gates on crossings and people drive around or through them. Railroads put up fences and people cut through them. These people knowingly trespass.
BP
11:03 am on Monday, September 24, 2012
I-80 has a track overpass right by the end of Newton St. Thus under the interstate across the rail-locking tracks to the water. Pretty plain on Google maps.
BP
11:03 am on Monday, September 24, 2012
Railroads have been running people down like dogs for 150 years and don't do NOTHING to prevent the killings which is MURDER---
The crossing signals the railroads rob the tax payers blind on in costs and stolen equipment off closed/reworked crossings. People drive around them because they are junk and close roads needlessly every time the wind shifts. These railroads KNOWINGLY murder people.
Gemini
10:01 pm on Monday, September 24, 2012
RIP Igor
RB
9:39 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The world has lost a brilliant man, a loving husband and father, hopefully soon we'll have answers so that random strangers can stop speculating and being so insensitive.
domingo reyes delgado
12:00 pm on Thursday, September 27, 2012
es muy cierto,que la expeculacion se hace presente y no les culpo,cuando todo esta tan confuso,pero ciertamente..lo que sabemos es que, se accidento luego de venir de una convenccion medica...llamo a un colega,por haberse accidentado y luego lo que sucedio ,es muy extraño,considerando las circustancias...pero el se desempeñaba como investigador del cancer en boston..oncologo..una vida valiosa ha sido segada..sea la razon que sea..deben corregirse los errores,de lo que he leido..sobre los trenes y los cruzes con autopistas..es todo
DMP
12:30 am on Thursday, December 13, 2012
I am so very sorry for the gentleman himself, and his loving family. May God rest his soul & bring his family some sort of comfort during this tragic time in their lives.