Some train service to and from Maryland was delayed for hours Monday after a 57-year-old Bethesda man was fatally struck by a freight train in Kensington.
Montgomery County police said Robert J. Crowly, of the 9200 block of East Park Hill Drive, fell onto the tracks that run parallel to the 10500 block of Metropolitan Avenue.
He was then run over by a CSX train just after 10 a.m., according to Cpl. Sonia Pruitt, a public information officer for the police department.
Investigators suspect that the Crowly’s death was accidental.
“He apparently worked at a lumber yard, and their understanding was that he was crossing the tracks to cash a check,” Cpl. Pruitt said.
According to Capt. Oscar Garcia, of the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue department, firefighters rushed the male victim to an area trauma center for life-threatening injuries. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
MARC and AMTRAK trains that typically run along those tracks were stalled until the early afternoon so police could investigate the incident, Pruitt said.
Representatives from MARC did not return calls Monday afternoon but an Amtrak spokesman said only one of his company’s trains — traveling from Chicago to Washington in the early afternoon — was slightly delayed.
