UPDATE: Pedestrian hit by TRAX train in Midvale
Updated: 11/20/2009 9:36 am | Published: 11/19/2009 5:25 pm
MIDVALE, Utah (ABC 4 News) - A
Taylorsville man is in critical condition Thursday evening, after being hit by a TRAX train.
UTA spokesman Gerry Carpenter says it happened around 5:00 p.m. at the Midvale Fort Union Station on 7200 South and 235 West.
Midvale police say 24-year old Mitchall Wilkey was listening to his headphones on the platform, and accidentally walked in front of the train.
Police say Wilkey was thrown 10 feet into a fence and suffered serious head trauma and is not expected to survive. This is the second accident involving headphones this year. according to police.
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