Crime & Safety

Woman Hit by Freight Train Ruled Suicide

Coroner says Goose Creek woman stood on the track.

Berkeley County Coroner Bill Salisbury has ruled a woman committed suicide early Thursday when she was hit by a freight train in Hanahan. 

Salisbury and Hanahan Police determined the woman was standing on the railroad tracks near Hanahan Road just after 3 a.m. Thursday. 

Salisbury would only say that it was a 53-year-old Goose Creek woman and asked for privacy out of respect for the family.

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Names are typically not published in cases of suicide.

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