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Jul 16, 2009 7:00 pm US/Eastern

Train Accident In Derry Twp. Claims Boy's Life

DERRY TWP. (KDKA) ― A boy from Westmoreland County has died after getting hit by a train this morning in Derry Township.

The accident happened around 9:30 a.m. on Railroad Street behind Mastrorocco's Market.

The teenager has been identified as 15-year-old Douglas Albright Jr. He was apparently riding his bicycle along the railroad tracks on his way home from the grocery store with his sister when the front of a freight train clipped him.

Police say two trains were coming at the same time and they think the boy may have gotten disoriented as to which one was moving faster.

According to authorities, the conductor saw the boy from about 100-feet away and blew the horn and screamed; but the boy did not move.

Police say the train, which was traveling at a speed of about 53 miles per hour, could not have stopped in time.

Another young boy, who was playing in his yard nearby, called for help after hearing a scream.

"I first heard a scream and I was up in my yard, so I ran down and I seen a kid laying there," Neighbor Marshal Wherry told KDKA. "So I dialed 911 and I got them on the line and they came about 20 minutes to a half-hour from then. The cops came in about five and the helicopter came about 45 minutes."

A helicopter came to the scene, but the boy was transported to Excela Health in Latrobe where he was pronounced dead.

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