Woman dies after being hit by train during routine morning jog in Pinal County

ELOY, AZ (AZFamily) — A 47-year-old woman is dead after being hit by a train during her routine morning jog Thursday morning.

Around 6 a.m., officers responded to the railroad crossing at Sunshine Boulevard and Frontier Street, according to the Eloy Police Department.

Police said a Union Pacific Railroad engineer saw the woman, later identified as Thelma Candelaria, walking between two tracks and immediately began braking and sounding the horn. A second train that had just passed through the area also sounded its horn, police said…

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