Texas Cops Investigate Mangled Body Found on Train Tracks near Border

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Texas Cops Investigate Mangled Body Found on Train Tracks near Border
 
RANDY CLARK17 Apr 202423
 
Law enforcement authorities made a gruesome discovery early Tuesday morning after a train conductor made a 911 call to report a suspicion that the train may have struck a person on the track. Multiple law enforcement agencies responded to the area just west of Del Rio and discovered the badly mangled remains of a deceased adult male lying on the tracks. According to law enforcement authorities, the Union Pacific railroad employee reported he could not avoid striking the person.

The incident occurred just after 1:00 a.m. on Tuesday, according to a law enforcement source who was not authorized to speak to the media. The badly mangled body has not been identified, and a press conference regarding the incident is set to begin shortly, according to the source. No next of kin has been notified, but the source close to the investigation suspects the deceased is not a migrant.


The Cienegas Terrace area west of Del Rio is very close to the border. The rail line that travels through the residential and industrial area is part of the Amtrack passenger rail route into Del Rio. The incident occurred approximately 4 miles west of the Del Rio Amtrack station. The source tells Breitbart the investigation is in the early stages, and most of the details surrounding the discovery of the body are not known.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2024/04/17/texas-cops-investigation-mangled-body-found-on-train-tracks-near-border/

[rangerrebew]

I worked on the RR while going to undergrad school.  While I was never on a run that hit a person, we did run over a mannequin someone stretched across the rails around midnight, I asked the engineer why he didn't throw the train into emergency, he said those things are usually a prank and he didn't want to lose time.  I was on a job that hit a car.  It is easy to extrapolate from what was left of the car and its driver, a train hitting a person wouldn't be much of a contest.  If you haven't been trained to work around trains, and even if you have, it is a dangerous place to be.