A 25-year-old woman is dead after attempting to cross train tracks on foot.
According to the Flagstaff Police Department, on March 27th around 9:30 p.m., a pedestrian, Larilynn Ben, of Phoenix, was struck by a train at the intersection of Beaver and Route 66 in Downtown Flagstaff.
Ms. Ben was attempting to cross between cars of a stopped Amtrak train and came out on the tracks in front of an eastbound BNSF train. The train engineer repeatedly blew the train’s horn. Ms. Ben then tried to turn around and go back through the stopped Amtrak train but was too late. She was declared deceased by medics on scene.