UK: Teen Killed By Train 'After Police Chase'
Posted: 10 Aug 2010, 07:17
Teen Killed By Train 'After Police Chase'
11:29pm UK, Monday August 09, 2010
Andy Winter, Sky News Online
A 16-year-old boy has been struck and killed by a train after apparently hurdling a level crossing barrier in an effort to escape police.
Moments earlier, the teenager had run from a car that was being chased by police in Enfield, north London, according to a Scotland Yard spokesman.
The spokesman said a Mercedes CLK - which officers thought was uninsured - had stopped when the gates came down near Enfield Lock station.
Two men - aged 21 and 22 - have been arrested after also fleeing the car at the crossing, he said.
He added that the pursuit lasted only "a few hundred yards".
The spokesman said: "(The victim) did climb the barriers and went on to the train track.
"A short time later he was hit by a north-bound train. We do not know the identity of the deceased at this stage."
"We can confirm that a 16-year-old youth was struck and killed by a train at Enfield Lock crossing," said a spokesman for British Transport Police.
The case has been referred to the Metropolitan Police's professional standards department to investigate.
11:29pm UK, Monday August 09, 2010
Andy Winter, Sky News Online
A 16-year-old boy has been struck and killed by a train after apparently hurdling a level crossing barrier in an effort to escape police.
Moments earlier, the teenager had run from a car that was being chased by police in Enfield, north London, according to a Scotland Yard spokesman.
The spokesman said a Mercedes CLK - which officers thought was uninsured - had stopped when the gates came down near Enfield Lock station.
Two men - aged 21 and 22 - have been arrested after also fleeing the car at the crossing, he said.
He added that the pursuit lasted only "a few hundred yards".
The spokesman said: "(The victim) did climb the barriers and went on to the train track.
"A short time later he was hit by a north-bound train. We do not know the identity of the deceased at this stage."
"We can confirm that a 16-year-old youth was struck and killed by a train at Enfield Lock crossing," said a spokesman for British Transport Police.
The case has been referred to the Metropolitan Police's professional standards department to investigate.