Articles labeled: toddler train accident

Hopefully this will be the last little kid hit by train story this month. What a horrific way for a child to die.

The tracks running through part of West Chicago are next to a large unfenced, empty field. That’s where 3-year-old Adriana Chew had been playing with her 8-year-old sister, just east of the railroad tracks.

When they headed for home, they crossed the tracks into the path of an oncoming southbound EJ&E freight train. Her sister made it across, Adriana did not.

Family members rushed to the injured girl.

“They all went over there and apparently she was trying to get up, and she just said I love you and that was it,” said family friend Rita Schauer.

A 2-year-old in Gary, Indiana was struck and killed by a passing freight train when he was playing too close to the tracks near his home.

The train’s engineer saw the boy but could not stop in time. Gary Police say they don’t expect charges to be filed against the parents of Ryan Watson and are calling his death a tragic accident. But the boy’s family sees things a little differently. They say if there was some sort of fence around the tracks he might still be alive.

“I don’t know what I’m going to do without him. He was so close to me,” said Janet Watson, victim’s grandmother