A woman and a 1-year-old girl were killed in a Chicago train accident on Saturday when a Metra train struck them as they crossed the tracks with family in suburban North Chicago, the Sun-Times reported.
The Metra Union Pacific North Line train No. 806 struck the woman carrying a baby just after 8 a.m. near the North Chicago station on Lakeside Drive, FOX News reported. The Lake County Coroner pronounced the women dead at the scene.
The infant was taken to Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan, where she was pronounced dead about 11:30 a.m.
The Daily Herald reported that the infant was the woman’s niece.
The woman was crossing the tracks with the infant’s father and another child, both of whom made it across the tracks before the train came.
The train had departed the Waukegan station at 8:50 a.m. and was due at the Great Lakes station shortly before 9 a.m. The train does not stop at the North Chicago station.
None of the passengers on the train were injured. They were transferred to another inbound train headed for Chicago.
The Chicago Tribune reported that the engineer waited until emergency crews arrived before exiting the cab, then met with authorities and the two conductors without speaking to anyone on the train.
The train remained parked for several hours as investigators combed the scene and took photographs.