A 64-year-old Kent woman died after getting hit by a train while reportedly standing on the tracks in Kent in the 1000 block of First Avenue North.
Officers were dispatched at about 5:51 p.m. Monday, Feb. 2 regarding a train striking a pedestrian on the BNSF Railway northbound tracks, according to a Feb. 3 Kent Police news release. Officers arrived and found the woman did not survive the impact.
Officers viewed a video during the initial investigation that showed the woman standing on the tracks waving at the train as it approached, according to police. The conductors advised that they utilized their horn in an attempt to divert the woman off the tracks and immediately attempted to stop. The conductors located the woman a short distance away from where she had been standing on the tracks…