Man Injured Escaping Train
Posted/updated on: January 31, 2012 at 1:36 pm
LONGVIEW — A Longview man has been injured after jumping out of the way of a train. Saturday morning shortly after 9:45, officers were dispatched to the area of Sabine and Ray Streets after receiving a call that a pedestrian had been hit by a train. When officers arrived, they found Donald Roy Brown, 52, of Longview in a ditch approximately 20 feet below the rail bridge.
Brown said he was attempting to cross the rail bridge with his bicycle when the train approached. Union Pacific spokeswoman Raquel Espinoza-Williams told the Longview News Journal that one of Union Pacific’s investigators spoke with Brown Monday and he said that the train didn’t hit him. He said he jumped as the train approached.
Officers say they determined Brown was intoxicated at the time of the accident. He was transported to Good Shepherd Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
