I actually slept through this:
Woman struck and killed by Amtrak train in Westchester
By Rob Ryser
Gannett News Service
CROTON-ON-HUDSON The blind, 75-year-old newsstand operator at the Croton-Harmon station was struck and killed by a southbound Amtrak train this morning when she went onto the platform to have a smoke and somehow fell onto the tracks, railroad officials said.
Teresa Fiorentino of Croton-on-Hudson was struck at 8:31 a.m. as the train was coming into the station to make a scheduled stop. The driver applied the emergency brakes, but it was too late, said Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Chief Stephen Conner.
Marjorie Anders, spokeswoman for Metro-North Railroad, which owns the tracks that Amtrak uses, said, "It's very sad. It's horribly sad."
Fiorentino worked with her grown daughter at the concession stand, which sells newspapers, magazines, coffee and candy. The stand is inside the station built over the tracks. Fiorentino would have come down a staircase to Platform 1 to smoke.
The police chief said there were several Metro-North commuters on the platform who saw the train approaching, with Fiorentino already on the tracks, but they didn't know how she got onto the tracks.
The track in question remained closed while police investigated, but the other tracks remained in use and Metro-North trains were getting through, said Metro-North spokesman Dan Brucker.
The Amtrak train left Albany at 6:55 a.m. and was due at Penn Station at 9:15 a.m. The passengers were transported into New York City on Metro-North, but the train itself remained at Croton-Harmon at 10:45 a.m. Brucker did not know how many passengers were aboard the train.
A host of ambulances, fire engines, police and the Westchester County Medical Examiner's Office remained at the scene as of 10:45 a.m.
By Rob Ryser
Gannett News Service
CROTON-ON-HUDSON The blind, 75-year-old newsstand operator at the Croton-Harmon station was struck and killed by a southbound Amtrak train this morning when she went onto the platform to have a smoke and somehow fell onto the tracks, railroad officials said.
Teresa Fiorentino of Croton-on-Hudson was struck at 8:31 a.m. as the train was coming into the station to make a scheduled stop. The driver applied the emergency brakes, but it was too late, said Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Chief Stephen Conner.
Marjorie Anders, spokeswoman for Metro-North Railroad, which owns the tracks that Amtrak uses, said, "It's very sad. It's horribly sad."
Fiorentino worked with her grown daughter at the concession stand, which sells newspapers, magazines, coffee and candy. The stand is inside the station built over the tracks. Fiorentino would have come down a staircase to Platform 1 to smoke.
The police chief said there were several Metro-North commuters on the platform who saw the train approaching, with Fiorentino already on the tracks, but they didn't know how she got onto the tracks.
The track in question remained closed while police investigated, but the other tracks remained in use and Metro-North trains were getting through, said Metro-North spokesman Dan Brucker.
The Amtrak train left Albany at 6:55 a.m. and was due at Penn Station at 9:15 a.m. The passengers were transported into New York City on Metro-North, but the train itself remained at Croton-Harmon at 10:45 a.m. Brucker did not know how many passengers were aboard the train.
A host of ambulances, fire engines, police and the Westchester County Medical Examiner's Office remained at the scene as of 10:45 a.m.
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