Illinois woman killed by train was trying to rescue opossum

Sunday, April 26, 2015

SWANSEA, Ill. -- A 58-year-old animal rescue volunteer struck and killed by a St. Louis MetroLink train in southwestern Illinois was responding to a call about an opossum on the tracks.

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