According to Fox26 when deputies arrived at the scene to assist the railroad police they learned that a man, 27-year-old Resendo Tellez, had removed evidence from the scene of the accident. When the pedestrian was struck by the train it severed his leg and shockingly, Tellez decided to flee with the leg in tow.
Sad news out of St. Landry Parish as Sheriff Bobby Guidroz says that his office investigated a fatality of a pedestrian that was hit by a train on Friday, January 21.
The Slidell Police Department said the 66-year-old man, who is possibly suffering from dementia, appeared to be sleeping on the train tracks around 9:30 pm when he was hit.
Details are still scarce, but KATC-TV3 is reporting that two people were injured in a crash involving a train and a passenger vehicle early Monday afternoon.
1. 18-year-old Amanda Byrne of Rowe, New Mexico is no longer with us. She apparently thought it a good idea to job on some railroad tracks while listening to music on her headphones. The engineer that struck her said he sounded the emergency horn several, all to no avail.