Body Found On Train, Investigation Underway

At 7:30 this morning a motorist noticed a lifeless body on the roof of the 64-car train passing by Oltorf Street. The train was en route to from San Antonio to Hearne and was stopped by police shortly after the 911 call.

Details are still coming in. A police spokesman said that they do believe the man may have jumped from the overpass onto the train, but they do not yet know the cause of death. The deceased is described as a Hispanic male, around 25 to 30 years of age, wearing black jeans, a black jacket and tennis shoes.

Expect Oltorf Street between Lamar and South First to be closed until the investigation is closed -- police believe the road may re-open by noon.

This is the third death in Austin today.

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By patrickdentler in News on July 14, 2008 11:50 AM 0 Comments

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Grape Ape

Check YouTube earch "train surfing" and check out the first video. Nuts

LoudMouth

My first thought was that it's a local tagger, but I'd never heard of train surfing.

triman

Could this be Austins first train surfing death?

Train surfing has been common in Europe and the far east for years, you wait on a bridge where you know the train will slow and jump on, the real nut cases transfer between trains at the same bridge where possible... I guess the cops are trying not to draw attention to it by not calling it a train surfing related death... In Europe people get killed when they fail to get off trains before they go underground and often get scraped off the top as the train goes into the tunnel or beheaded running towards the back of the train to get away from the entrance.

It's an EXTREME sport.