Crime & Safety
Elderly Driver Rescued Before Metra Train Struck Her Car
The 80-year-old driver misjudged a left turn and drove onto the railroad tracks.
An 80-year-old Glen Ellyn woman was rescued Monday evening shortly before a Metra train hit her car, which was disabled on the south rail line on the Burlington Northern-Santa Fe tracks.
A westbound Metra train hit the open driver’s side door as it passed, according to Western Springs police.
A man and a woman saw the elderly driver turn onto the railroad tracks from Wolf Road, police reported. They approached her disabled car and took the driver to safety.
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Police were called at 5:17 p.m., and officers on the scene reported the car was about 200 feet east of Wolf Road in the 700 block of Burlington Avenue in Western Springs.
The driver had been traveling south on Wolf Road when she misjudged a left turn and drove onto the tracks, according to the police investigation.
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The driver was not injured, but she was brought to La Grange Memorial Hospital as a precaution.
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