MIDOTHIAN, IL (WLS/CNN) - Kelly Harris likely never saw the warning lights at the intersection with the tracks because she was visually impaired. She likely heard the train’s horn, but she may not have realized she was standing on the edge of the tracks when the train hit her.
Her husband, Bobby Harris, was downtown Chicago, about to take the train home, when he learned the train was delayed because a pedestrian had been hit in Midlothian. Then, he learned that pedestrian was his wife of more than 25 years.
She was just steps from the couple’s home, heading with her service dog to a nearby CVS drugstore to pick up her husband’s prescription.
Bobby Harris said his wife was very familiar with the area but probably got disoriented at some point.
The train’s engineer told investigators he saw Harris standing close to the edge of the west platform just south of the crossing at 147th Street. He sounded the train’s horn and activated emergency brakes.
A spokesman says Metra has been unable to find any witnesses who saw the train hit her.
“We don’t know,” Bobby Harris said. “We may never know.”
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