Daughter, 5, Was With Woman Fatally Struck By Train: Officials

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL — A 29-year-old woman was with her 5-year-old daughter when she was fatally struck by a Metra train earlier this week in Arlington Heights, Metra officials told Patch. The girl was not injured in the incident, which occurred at about 6 p.m. Tuesday just west of the Arlington Park Metra station, 2121 W. Northwest Highway, Katie Dahlstrom, a spokesperson for Metra, said Friday.

Daisy Diego Rebollar of Cicero was pronounced dead at the scene. An engineer on train 637 told Metra police that he saw the woman walking on the railroad ties along the outside edge of the track when he sounded his horn, Dahlstrom said. He also initiated "emergency braking procedures."

Authorities are unclear if the woman walked onto or fell on the tracks. The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office has ruled the death was accidental and that Rebollar died from multiple injuries sustained after being hit by a train.

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The incident halted Metra traffic and caused extensive delays along the Union Pacific Northwest line on Tuesday.

The fatality is the second along Metra's Northwest line. A person was also struck and killed Sunday in Des Plaines.

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