Crime & Safety
UPDATE: Authorities Identify Cary Woman Killed by Train on Saturday
Cary resident Jill Turskey, 35, was struck and killed shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday on the railroad tracks just northwest of the Cary Metra station, authorities said.
UPDATED SUNDAY, NOV. 4:
The McHenry County Coroner's office said Jill Turskey, 35, of Cary was the person struck and killed by a Metra train on Saturday evening.
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Turskey was struck by an outbound Metra train at about 6:50 p.m. on the tracks northwest of the Cary train station, across from Feinburg Court.
Investigators on Sunday were trying to determine how the collision occurred. Kim Bostic, deputy coroner for the county, said the investigation is on-going.
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Turskey was a 1995 graduate of Cary-Grove High School, according to her Facebook page.
ORIGINAL STORY POSTED SATURDAY, NOV. 3
A Metra train struck and killed a pedestrian in Cary at about 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, the Chicago Tribune is reporting.
The Union Pacifici Northwest Line Train 721 left downtown Chicago at 5:30 p.m. and hit the pedestrian at 6:50 p.m. on the railroad tracks northwest of Cary-Algonquin Road (across from Feinburg Court), shortly after leaving the Cary Metra Station, the Tribune said.
Metra train service was delayed as the accident was investigated, the story said.
The accident is the second train-related fatality in McHenry County in the past two weeks.
At about 3:15 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, a 61-year-old Prairie Grove man was hit and killed by a Metra train near the Sands Road crossing, just east of Crystal Lake.
McHenry County Coroner Marlene Lantz told Crystal Lake-Cary Patch that death appeared to be a case of suicide.
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