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Police: Woman struck by freight train in Beaverton while looking at her phone
by KATU.com Staff
Thursday, April 20th 2017



BEAVERTON, Ore. — A 26-year-old woman was struck by a freight train Thursday while looking at her phone, police say.
She has life-threatening injuries.
The incident happened at Southwest Lombard and Beaverton Hillsdale Highway at about 3:30 p.m.
Responding police officers applied two tourniquets to the woman's injuries and she was taken to the hospital.
Police say witnesses told them that the woman was crossing in a crosswalk against the train safety arms with their lights on. They said they could clearly hear the train's horn.
“It’s a very tragic incident, but we also want to take this opportunity to remind people that you got to have your head on swivel, you got to have your head up, you got to be listening to what’s going on, and that’s one of the problems with having our entire life and all kinds of things at our disposal in our hand here, is that we get distracted," said Beaverton police spokesman Mike Rowe.