Police Hope Surveillance Footage Sheds Light on Train Fatality

Police are hoping that surveillance video from the train station and surrounding area can help explain the death of a pedestrian who was struck and killed by a freight train at a Lake Forest Metra station last week, according to an article in the Lake Forester.

Mark E. Worden, 59, was dropped off by a co-worker at the West Lake Forest Metra station June 17 a little before 8 p.m. They had been at a company picnic, according to Metra spokesperson Meg Reile. According to the train’s conductor and engineer, Worden ran across the tracks from west to east suddenly and the train was unable to stop, Reile said.

Metra police had hoped to get video footage from the Canadian Pacific train, but the railroad does not have that video, the Lake Forester article says. So Metra police are hoping to get surveillance video from the area while Lake Forest police get the video footage from the station itself.

Worden was a soon-to-be grandfather and national championship drag racer who worked for Siemens in Buffalo Grove for 20 years, the article says.

You can read the full Lake Forester article here.