Union Pacific is limiting its train schedules more than a week after a Milby High School student was killed while crossing the tracks to get to school.
The company says effective immediately, they will not have trains running for one hour during school drop-off and pick-up times at Milby.
The company is also working to extend sidewalks along Broadway to make crossing safer.
The change comes after 15-year-old Sergio Rodriguez was hit while trying to cross in front of a slow-moving Union Pacific train, according to information provided by witnesses. The student was hit about a fifth of a mile down from where the caution arms went down.
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The Milby HS community has suffered a tragic and unfortunate loss, the district said in a statement.
First responders pronounced the teenager dead at the scene. Investigators said they don’t have reason to believe there was foul play and called the incident “accidental.”