(The Associated Press circulated the following on August 20.)
NEW CARROLLTON, Md. — Amtrak says a worker was struck by an Acela Express train near New Carrollton and later died.
Amtrak spokeswoman Karina Romero says the northbound train left Washington at 5 a.m. Wednesday and struck the Amtrak worker at 5:08 a.m. Amtrak and MARC Penn line traffic in both directions was suspended for about two hours.
She says no one aboard the train was injured.
The Prince George’s County Fire Department says the 35-year-old man was taken to an area trauma center in critical condition. Romero says the injured man died later at the hospital. She declined to release his name.
Romero says she doesn’t know what the man was doing at the time he was struck, but the incident is under investigation.