Watch Out! On Friday January 6th a 21 year old Meriden man was killed Friday morning, when he was hit by a northbound train Amtrak train, police said. Giovanni Policard of 51 Liberty St. was hit by the train at about 9:46 a.m. near an area where the track goes under the Wilbur Cross Parkway, Wallingford police Lt. Marc Mikulski said. That stretch of railroad tracks runs parallel to 1001 North Colony Road, which is also Route 5.
Policard’s body was taken from the scene more than two hours later to the office of the chief state medical examiner in Farmington. Neither Wallingford nor Amtrak police are commenting on the circumstances of Policard’s death.
Amtrak officials said 25 passengers were on the train, which was traveling from New Haven’s Union Station to Springfield, Mass., when the incident occurred. None of the passengers were injured, according to Amtrak officials. Travelers on trains scheduled to pass through the area were bused around the accident scene. Cliff Cole, an Amtrak spokesman in New York, said normal service on the line was resumed at 1 p.m.
Policard’s body was taken from the scene more than two hours later to the office of the chief state medical examiner in Farmington. Neither Wallingford nor Amtrak police are commenting on the circumstances of Policard’s death.
Amtrak officials said 25 passengers were on the train, which was traveling from New Haven’s Union Station to Springfield, Mass., when the incident occurred. None of the passengers were injured, according to Amtrak officials. Travelers on trains scheduled to pass through the area were bused around the accident scene. Cliff Cole, an Amtrak spokesman in New York, said normal service on the line was resumed at 1 p.m.
This was not the first time someone has died due to a train, in Wallingford in recent weeks. On December 5th, a woman died after being hit by an Amtrak train near the Meriden line. Police say a northbound Amtrak train bound for Springfield, Mass. struck and killed a woman walking on the train tracks Monday morning near the Meriden border. About 11 a.m., the train engineer reported that his train struck a pedestrian walking on the tracks near the Meriden town line off of Old Colony Road, Wallingford police said.
The adult woman was killed instantly, police say, when she was struck about a tenth of a mile south of the Meriden town line. None of the 37 passengers and crew on the train was injured, according to Amtrak.
Neighbors say people, including children, regularly walk on the train tracks in the area. Normally, the train passes through the area with a couple of quick horn blasts, but this morning there was one sustained blast, said one neighbor of noticing the difference in the normal routine.
In my opinion there should be a fence around both, sides of the tracks with signs saying cross at your own risk. It might cost a couple thousand dollars and some inconvenience but is that worth more then someone’s life?
Sources:
newhavenregister.com
WTNH.com
Annalys Fuentes
Ktla.com
Milly Torres
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