A person was hit by a freight train at the Superior St crossing in Albion Thursday morning.

23-year-old Ervin Hunter of Albion was riding a bike when they were hit by the engine of the train and dragged around 100 feet down the tracks. When officers arrived, he was found under the ninth freight car of the train.
Hunter was treated at the scene, then airlifted to Kalamazoo where he is listed in critical condition. He had at least one limb amputated by the collision.
Officials believe he was trying to beat the train, based on video froma nearby business. They believe he was on his way to work.
Anyone who may have witnessed the accident is asked to contact the Albion Public Safety at 269-781-0911.
 
 
NJ Transit presented two rather blunt public service announcements Friday with a simple plea: "Stay off the tracks." The goal is to reduce railroad fatalities.

Titled "You Don't Win" and "You're Dead," the ads that will begin running this weekend on broadcast and cable networks in Philadelphia and New York give dramatic, firsthand accounts from police and transit workers involved in recent fatalities and from the families of people who were killed.

Three deaths last fall were apparently part of a widespread problem on railroads in the region — people trespassing on tracks who are accidentally killed and those who enter the danger zone to commit suicide. In the last two years, at least 91 people have been killed by trains on NJ Transit and SEPTA lines, officials have said.


The videos can be found here: http://www.njtransit.com/rg/rg_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=SafetyTo

 
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Ride to the hospital in an ambulance, $1,339.00



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Trauma Emergency Room bill, $20,000

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Placing a cost on life lost because of trying to beat a train, priceless.

Play it smart, never try and decide to beat a train. The next life saved may be your own or someone you love