For the second time in less than a week, a pedestrian has been hit and killed by a CSX train within the city limits of Ocala.
Here's what we know:
When was the latest death? Oct. 18.
Where was the crash? The 2300 block of Northeast 36th Avenue.
Which law enforcement agency is investigating the death? Ocala Police Department.
What time was the call received?
Police officials said they were notified shortly after 6 p.m.What happened? Officers said the CSX train was traveling east when the operators noticed someone on the tracks. The operators blew the horn and prepared to stop the train.
Unable to stop in time, the train hit the individual, identified only as a 60-year-old woman.
Police said the train had left Tampa and was on its way to Jacksonville.
It had 96 cars and they were empty, officials said.
This is the third such case this year and the second in less than a week.
On Oct. 15, Ocala Police officers were called about a train striking a a man shortly before 1:25 a.m. at Northeast Eighth Avenue and Northeast 14th Street, behind 14th Street Plaza.
The crash blocked several railroad intersections from North Magnolia Avenue to Northeast 25th Avenue.
On March 15, a homeless man died when he was hit by a CSX train in the 600 block of Northwest Third Street.
Contact Austin L. Miller at austin.miller@starbanner.com
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