Teenager Wearing Headphones Hit By Train
WENTZVILLE, Mo. (AP) - For the second time in a month, authorities in the St. Louis area say a teenager has been struck and killed by a train while wearing earphones.
The boy's mother tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that she warned her 15-year-old son, Mitchell Maeserang, about the dangers of wearing the buds in both ears while walking near traffic.
But authorities say that's what the teen was doing around 9:45 a.m. Sunday while crossing the tracks in Wentzville.
Mitchell was hit by a Norfolk Southern freight train.
Railroad officials say the crew spotted the teen and sounded the horn. Bystanders also tried to get his attention.
On May 30, a 14-year-old boy was also wearing earphones when he was killed by an Amtrak train while walking along railroad tracks in Kirkwood.
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