75-year-old man hit and killed by a freight train in Puyallup has been identified
The 75-year-old man who was struck by a freight train Thursday in Puyallup has been identified.
Dragan Razmilovic died from multiple blunt force injuries, according to a news release from the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office Monday. His death was ruled an accident.
The medical examiner’s office wrote in the news release that he had an unknown address. Puyallup Police said he was a Puyallup resident.
On March 28 police and Central Pierce Fire and Rescue were dispatched around 8:44 a.m. to the 100 block of North Meridian, according to a news release from the police department.
They found Razmilovic with “obvious trauma” next to the tracks, according to the news release.
The News Tribune reported Thursday that a train headed to Tacoma hit him. Police said he died at the scene.
Witnesses told police that he tried to “scurry across the tracks ahead of a BNSF freight train,” the police department wrote in a statement.
Officers closed nearby roads that day, The News Tribune reported.
