A woman was fatally struck by a train in Clinton Saturday night.
Clinton police said emergency personnel were dispatched to the Clinton Shoreline East Train Station a little after 10:15 p.m. Saturday after receiving a report that a pedestrian had been hit by a train.
Authorities confirmed that the woman was struck by an Amtrak Northeast Regional train traveling from Boston to New York. Amtrak said there were no reported injuries among the 284 passengers and crew on board.
It is still unclear why the woman was on the tracks at the time of the collision, police said.
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Amtrak police are investigating the incident.
The fatal collision occurred a little over 12 hours after a person was hit by a train in Greenwich, and less than 48 hours after a train struck a tractor-trailer in North Haven.
