HANAHAN — A prepare passing via the world struck and killed a 53-year-old man within the early night of March 27.
At round 5 p.m., Hanahan police responded to a portion of monitor close to Northbrook Drive and Eagle Touchdown Boulevard to seek out an individual lifeless, mentioned Chief Rick Gebhardt. A CSX freight prepare had struck Bryon L. Hickmon and he was pronounced lifeless on the scene.
Authorities are at present trying to find out Hickmon’s metropolis of residence. There’s a risk the person was homeless, Berkeley County Coroner Darnell Hartwell instructed The Put up and Courier.
The prepare was halted for almost an hour and 45 minutes as officers surveyed the scene.
Gebhardt mentioned that Hickmon had been crossing the tracks outdoors of a delegated railroad grade crossing, sometimes delineated by well-marked signage, symbols, flashing lights and, ceaselessly, striped gates that shut roadways to car site visitors.
The Federal Railroad Administration labels those that cross the tracks outdoors of grade crossings as “trespassers,” given they traversed the railway with out implied permission. Taking shortcuts throughout tracks accounts for almost all of rail-related fatalities throughout the nation, in keeping with the FRA.
Whereas train-related deaths are comparatively uncommon in South Carolina — particularly in comparison with the speed of fatalities in site visitors collisions — on common, trespassing accounts for over half of the fatalities yearly, in keeping with a Post and Courier analysis of FRA data from 2015-2023.
Hickmon is one of some to die by impression from a prepare in Berkeley County this yr.
Within the early-morning hours of New 12 months’s Day, 72-year-old Jesse Wallace was struck while walking across the tracks close to close to NAD Street in Goose Creek. The Hanahan Police Division was amongst a number of jurisdictions who responded to the scene.
Earlier this month, on March 13, 59-year-old William Jeffrey Foster was killed after an Amtrak prepare struck his car on Altman Avenue in Moncks Nook. A 15-year-old lady was driving within the automotive as nicely and was rushed to an space hospital in vital situation, in keeping with an incident report from the Moncks Nook Police Division.
Moncks Nook police Chief Lee Mixon instructed The Put up and Courier she was “preventing for her life” on the Medical College of South Carolina on March 21.
Foster drove previous and bypassed the grade-crossing gates that day, in keeping with video surveillance obtained from the scene. Earlier than his try and cross the tracks, six different automobiles had efficiently gone previous the gates and reached the opposite facet, in keeping with the report.
