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Teen Listening To MP3 Player Killed By Train

Posted: 11:01 pm EST November 10, 2008Updated: 5:40 am EST November 11, 2008

A train hit and killed a 16-year-old student Monday afternoon in Cramerton, N.C., while he was listening to an MP3 player.

Police said Joshua Phillips was walking home from South Point High School. A freight train hit him from behind on a railroad trestle near North Main Street.

Police said Phillips apparently never heard the train coming.

Norfolk-Southern workers said Phillips never acknowledged the train's horn or bell.

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