{"id":1609,"date":"2012-07-10T13:49:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T17:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2012-07-10T17:54:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T21:54:57","slug":"police-identify-the-man-struck-killed-by-a-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=1609","title":{"rendered":"Police identify the man struck, killed by a train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Amtrak investigators ruled the death of a 57-year-old Coatesville resident accidental<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Kathleen Brady Shea<\/strong>,\u00a0<em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Managing Editor, The Times<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Coatesville police today identified the man struck and killed on Friday at 4:22 p.m. by an Amtrak train.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from Coatesville assisted Amtrak police with the investigation into the death of Thurman Perkins III, 57, of Coatesville, who was fatally<a href=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Amtrak-300x3001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1616\" style=\"border-width: 2px; border-color: black; border-style: solid; margin: 4px;\" title=\"Amtrak-300x300\" src=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Amtrak-300x3001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Amtrak-300x3001.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Amtrak-300x3001-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Amtrak-300x3001-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> struck by a train in the area of the Coatesville Train Station and the high bridge, a press release said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers who arrived at the scene came into contact with a visibly distraught female who was with Perkins when he was killed near Second and Fleetwood Streets. Police said Perkins suffered multiple fractures and internal injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who was not identified, was transported to Paoli Hospital for \u00a0injuries she sustained, the release said. Police said she was released from the hospital Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Amtrak police have ruled the death accidental, the release said. Police said interviews with the female witness helped reach that conclusion. \u00a0A toxicology report, which is routine for every autopsy conducted by the Chester County Coroner&#8217;s Office, is expected to be completed within four to six weeks, an office spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>An Amtrak spokeswoman said the train, part of the Keystone service that runs from Harrisburg to New York, \u00a0was carrying about 150 passengers who were eventually transferred to another train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amtrak investigators ruled the death of a 57-year-old Coatesville resident accidental By Kathleen Brady Shea,\u00a0Managing Editor, The Times Coatesville police today identified the man struck and killed on Friday at 4:22 p.m. by an Amtrak train. Officers from Coatesville assisted Amtrak police with the investigation into the death of Thurman Perkins III, 57, of Coatesville, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,1],"tags":[491,24,515,516],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","category-uncategorized","tag-amtrak","tag-coatesville","tag-keystone","tag-train"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}