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Tragedy
Woman saves baby from oncoming train, but is killed herself
The woman died after managing to free a pushchair caught on railway tracks in California.
A WOMAN PUSHING a baby in a pushchair across railroad tracks was hit and killed by a train – after managing to shove the buggy to safety just in time to save the infant.
The woman was trying to walk through the crossing in Riverside, California on Saturday evening when the pushchair became stuck in the tracks, police said. She managed to free the stroller, but she couldn’t escape the oncoming commuter train.
“She didn’t quite make it,” Riverside police sergeant Dan Warren said. “The baby’s fine, but she got hit.”
He did not have further details, including the woman’s identity and her connection to the child.
Passenger Joseph Avila said he and the several dozen other passengers on the train going from Oceanside to San Bernardino in southern California did not feel the collision.
He told KCAL-TV that the train stopped and a conductor said there had been a fatality.
Both police and railroad officials were investigating the collision.
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