Driver did not try to move or leave car, train service engineer tells La Grange police.
- POLICE & FIRE
- Ken Manson
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Just before a Chicago woman was killed Feb. 10, when a train hit her car at the Gilbert Avenue crossing of the Burlington Northern railroad tracks, she turned toward the train service engineer, looked directly at him and did not seem surprised, that employee told La Grange police. Maria G. Hinojosa, 57, of the 3000 block of south Keeler Avenue did not try to move the vehicle or get out of it, the engineer told La Grange police. The Cook County medical examiner’s office has ruled the death a suicide and said it was due to multiple injuries from a train hitting a vehicle. The engineer, a 54-year-old man from Aurora, said Metra locomotive Engine 186 was going east at about 70 mph at about 5:54 p.m. that day and was approaching Gilbert …
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The driver killed in Friday night's Metra accident on Gilbert Avenue has been identified as a Chicago woman.
La Grange police said on Monday that they do not yet know why a Chicago woman’s vehicle was stopped on the Burlington Northern Railroad tracks at Gilbert Avenue (between La Grange and Western Springs) where it was hit by a train at about 5:54 p.m. Feb. 10. The driver has been identified as Maria G. Hinojosa, 57, of the 3000 block of S. Keeler Avenue in Chicago. The matter still is under investigation, police investigator Ken Uher said on Monday. No information was available that day from the Cook County medical examiner’s office about her death.
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12:36 pm on Friday, March 2, 2012
Seems to me that "what ended the life" was the woman's choice to stay in her car and wait for a train to hit her. more ›