LAMAR -- A 21-year-old man was struck by a train and killed a few miles southeast of Lamar, authorities said.
Adam David Pettengill of Lamar was dead at the scene about 4:30 a.m. Saturday.
A Burlington Northern conductor said Pettengill was lying on the railroad tracks and had just begun to get up when the train hit him, the Barton County Sheriff's Department said in a news release.
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