Woman Walking on Tracks Killed by Train
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A 46-year-old woman was struck and killed by a Blue Line train Tuesday, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said.
Sylvia Sayles of Los Angeles was walking on the tracks when she was hit by a train shortly before 8 a.m. at Willowbrook Avenue and Imperial Highway, said MTA spokesman Ed Scannell.
The gates were down and the red lights were flashing when she was hit by a southbound train, Scannell said.
County Fire Department paramedics pronounced Sayles dead from massive trauma, he said.
Forty-one people have been killed in car and pedestrian collisions with Blue Line trains since the service began July 1990, including seven fatalities this year, he said.
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