ST. ALBANS, W.Va. (AP) — An 84-year-old man has died after being struck by a train in West Virginia.
St. Albans Police Lt. James Agee said an empty westbound CSX coal train hit and killed Ronald E. Hoover of Amandaville on Sunday as he tried to cross railroad tracks in St. Albans.
Agee said Hoover was a former railroad worker with Alzheimer’s.
Hoover’s body was went to the state medical examiner’s office.
CSX is also investigating.