Updated: 5:40 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008 | Posted: 11:01 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10, 2008
Teen Listening To MP3 Player Killed By Train
CRAMERTON, N.C. —
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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