According to Fox26 when deputies arrived at the scene to assist the railroad police they learned that a man, 27-year-old Resendo Tellez, had removed evidence from the scene of the accident. When the pedestrian was struck by the train it severed his leg and shockingly, Tellez decided to flee with the leg in tow.
Sad news out of St. Landry Parish as Sheriff Bobby Guidroz says that his office investigated a fatality of a pedestrian that was hit by a train on Friday, January 21.
The Slidell Police Department said the 66-year-old man, who is possibly suffering from dementia, appeared to be sleeping on the train tracks around 9:30 pm when he was hit.
Watch as this little boy anxiously awaits for a train to approach him and his father. Not only is he excited to see a train, but he hopes for the engineer to blow the horn too.
Details are still scarce, but KATC-TV3 is reporting that two people were injured in a crash involving a train and a passenger vehicle early Monday afternoon.
Have you ever seen a train blow right off the tracks before? Probably not. I mean, what would be the chances that a camera would be recording alongside a railroad track at precisely the same time that Mother Nature gets all Hulk-strong on the Chattanooga choo-choo?