9192017_TrainDeaths
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A sleeping bag lays against a fence at the bottom of Monument Valley Park as a train passes nearby. Four people have been killed by trains in El Paso County in the past three months, three of the four were experiencing homelessness.
(The Gazette, Nadav Soroker)
A train passes under Bijou St. near I-25, a part of the tracks where two people were fatally struck in the past three months. More people have been killed by trains during the past three months in El Paso County than in the entire decade before, officials say.
(The Gazette, Nadav Soroker)
A train passes by a gap in the fence in Monument Valley Park near Bijou St. on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. Four people have been killed by trains in the past three months, police believe each person was either suicidal or under the influence of drugs - or both - when they were hit by a train.
(The Gazette, Nadav Soroker)
Deaths by train have spiked recently in Colorado Springs, with four deaths in one month compared to three in the previous decade. Trains photographed at the locations where the deaths occurred on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2017.
(The Gazette, Nadav Soroker)
Deaths by train have spiked recently in Colorado Springs, with four deaths in one month compared to three in the previous decade. Trains photographed at the locations where the deaths occurred on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2017.
(The Gazette, Nadav Soroker)