{"id":29408,"date":"2017-07-17T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/freight-train-kills-woman-in-kent\/"},"modified":"2017-07-18T12:58:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T19:58:46","slug":"freight-train-kills-woman-in-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/freight-train-kills-woman-in-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Freight train kills woman in Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman died on Sunday after getting hit by a BNSF Railway freight train earlier in the morning in Kent.<\/p>\n

Reports were received about a female found on the platform for the Sounder Station, 301 Railroad Ave. N.,<\/a> said BNSF spokesman Gus Melonas, in a phone interview. He estimated the time of the accident at about 8:30 a.m.<\/p>\n

“A freight train made impact with the woman,” Melonas said.<\/p>\n

BNSF had no reports initially from train crews about striking anyone, Melonas said. But investigators later determined the woman had been hit by a train just north of West Smith Street and east of the Kent Station shopping center.<\/p>\n

The King County Medical Examiner’s Office has not yet released the woman’s name.<\/p>\n

On June 23, a freight train struck and killed Antonio Sanchez, 35, of Auburn, on the tracks in south Kent at about 5:19 a.m. near the trestle over South 266th Street, south of Willis Street and west of Central Avenue South.<\/p>\n

Ten people have been killed so far this year on BNSF tracks in the state, Melonas said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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