Train Strikes Person At Hazel Crest Station, Delaying Service

HAZEL CREST, IL - Service was delayed on several trains along the Metra Electric Line Thursday morning as a result of a train striking a person near the Hazel Crest station. Metra Spokesman Tom Miller said it was Train #708, which left University Park at 7:45 a.m. and was bound for Millennium Station in Chicago at 8:38 a.m., that struck the person.

The train "arrived about an hour late," according to Miller, who said additional trains on the Electric Line arrived and departed with residual delays. As of 1 p.m., all service has been resumed as normal.

Miller said the person was not fatally struck. Although an initial report has not officially been made, indications are that the train hit a person who was sitting on the platform and had their feet dangling over the tracks.

The train involved remained at the Hazel Crest station for an hour as investigators began to piece together what had occurred.

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