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Update on the Pedestrian Killed at Greenwich Train Station

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The scene Friday, as a Metro North train struck a pedestrian at the Cos Cob train station. (Photo by Caroll Melgar)
The scene Friday, as a Metro North train struck a pedestrian at the Cos Cob train station. (Photo by Caroll Melgar)

On Friday morning, a 28-year-old Connecticut female on the northbound side of the Cob Cob train station was struck and killed by an oncoming train.

The Greenwich Police Department, as well as the MTA Police, were on the scene and MTA Police conducted its investigation.

According to the MTA Police Public Information Office, around 9:30 a.m. on Friday, a Metro North train at the Cos Cob station heading northbound hit 28-year-old Tamar A. Louis, a Stamford resident, who was on the tracks.

MTA Spokeswoman Meredith Daniels said that as part of the investigation, MTA Police interviewed the train engineer and anybody else that saw the incident transpire.

Daniels said that Louis was sitting on the edge of the platform and had her feet dangling over the tracks. The engineer sounded the horn, signaling that a train was approaching the station. Louis got up, but on her way to her feet she dropped her handbag onto the tracks.

She then went down on the tracks to retrieve her item. It was then when the Metro North train struck the female.

“It’s tragic that this happened,” Daniels said. “No one, for any reason, should go down to the tracks to retrieve anything. It could cost you your life.”

The vehicle was an express train from the Greenwich to Stamford stations and was going around 45 miles per hour. As stated earlier, the train did sound its horn, but it wasn’t due to stop at the station.

Customers that were on the train that hit the victim were transferred to another train and were 30 to 40 minutes late.

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