Train Accidents in Lake Forest
According to a recent article in Gazebo News, an online news site covering Chicago’s North Shore, there have been six collisions between people and trains since 1988 at the Metra station in west Lake Forest.
In 1988, two people were killed when a woman, who had fallen on the tracks, and a man who attempted to assist her were struck by a Seattle-bound, 11-car Amtrak train traveling at 70 miles per hour.
Ten years later, in March 1998, a 56-year-old woman from Round Lake Beach was struck and injured by a north-bound Amtrak train. The collision resulted in a broken leg and head injuries.
In 2003, an 11-year-old boy was killed by a freight train while crossing the tracks in the afternoon.
Five years later, in 2008, an Amtrak train killed a 51-year-old woman when she crossed the tracks in the pedestrian walk.
Most recently, on December 10 of this year, a 43-year-old woman was killed after being struck by Amtrak’s No. 7 Seattle-bound train.
The full article can be read here.
