Read about man fatally struck by Amtrak train near Castle Rock …

This was updated at 5:06 p.m.

By Sharyn  L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter

The Olympian reports a man was killed by a train in the Castle Rock area last night about 6:40 p.m.

Few details were offered except he is believed to be from the area.

The (Longview) Daily News said it was a 31-year-old man walking south toward Caste Rock who failed to get out of the way of a northbound train and that a blood test will be conducted to learn if he was “impaired”.

Read more here.

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3 Responses to “Read about man fatally struck by Amtrak train near Castle Rock …”

  1. lorisa says:
    Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 12:44 pm

    This man was my brother. He was not suicidal. It was freak accident.

  2. MS says:
    Friday, January 13, 2012 at 1:27 am

    I know the guy through a friend of a friend. He hardly ever had a car so he walked or got rides. I’m wondering what the heck he was doing on the tracks and why he didn’t move. Who knows. He has 3 kids, and a girlfriend of 11 years. It’s strange.

  3. T says:
    Monday, January 9, 2012 at 11:53 am

    Brutal. I was on an Amtrak from Seattle to Centralia one year just before Thanksgiving when it hit a suicidal man standing with his arms outstretched in front of his car parked across the tracks. It was pretty horrible for a lot of people.