Members of the public are urging safety improvements at a Puyallup railway crossing where a wheelchair user was hit and killed by a freight train last month, complaints submitted to state regulators show.
The complaints, full copies of which The News Tribune received in response to a public records request, came after 59-year-old Richard Geiger was struck and killed by a BNSF Railway train while trying to cross the tracks at Meridian Avenue in his electric wheelchair on Oct. 21.
The News Tribune first reported on the complaints on Oct. 23, but had to submit the public records request for additional information. Regulators also received complaints about the roadway surface in 2012 and 2016, but the railroad corrected the issues identified in those complaints before Geiger’s death, according to regulators…